En este artículo se estudian el impacto de los cambios en el Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias (SGP) de la Unión Europea (UE) sobre sus propias importaciones, procedentes de los países beneficiarios del SGP de la ASEAN y China, y de América Latina, y el uso de los beneficios del SGP por...

Este artículo propone un algoritmo para identificar rutas de transformación productiva con base en estimaciones de distancia entre productos. El algoritmo encuentra secuencias de bienes que describen la transición o ruta entre las ventajas comparativas de un país y sus objetivos de política...

En este documento se realiza una caracterización de las exportaciones industriales colombianas en el periodo 1990-2010, comparando la clasificación convencional de las exportaciones (tradicionales y no tradicionales) con la de los contenidos tecnológicos de Sanjaya Lall (2000) y resaltando...

Después de dos décadas de apertura económica Colombia continúa apostándole a la internacionalización de su economía a través de integraciones bilaterales o multilaterales. Por lo tanto, en el marco del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Canadá, y con el fin de contribuir al análisis...

Another quiet revolution is taking place in the alcoholic beverage markets: a trend toward lower-alcohol and even no-alcohol beverages, especially in the world's higher-income countries. This new trend adds to the long-term consumer trend in affluent countries of substituting quality for...

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export...

This paper investigates the heterogeneous responses of exporters to policy reforms undertaken by the People's Bank of China to internationalize the Renminbi (RMB). Using detailed customs data from France for the initial years of these reforms (2011-2017), it documents several novel stylized...

Embedding new technology creates opportunities and challenges for the global value chain (GVC). Using country-level panel data from 59 economies in 2007–2018, we construct a fixed-effects model to investigate the relationship between digital technology and the GVC position. Moreover, we...

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export...

This paper studies technology absorption worldwide in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel datasets to test the idea that the codification of technical knowledge in the vernacular was necessary for countries to absorb the technologies of the Industrial Revolution. We find that...