This paper aims at unveiling the roots of integration-induced trade effects for MERCOSUR. For this purpose, its … effects which are found for MERCOSUR en bloc, two results are central: Firstly, with sectoral exceptions, I generally identify …

Harrison, Rutherford, Tarr, and Gurgel estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR … simultaneously negotiating the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, while supporting multilateral liberalization through the Doha … highly protected markets. Both the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreements are net trade-creating for the countries involved, but …

In the 90’s, the Mercosur countries experienced a strong growth of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). To … examine the relationship between FDI, trade and regional integration in the Mercosur, we tested different disaggregated … gravity equations on trade and FDI flows between two Mercosur members – Argentina and Brazil – and their partners during the …

We consider the impact of MERCOSUR on trade among Brazilian states and on trade by Brazilian states with MERCOSUR and … the rest of the world. We use a theoretically founded gravity model to shed light on MERCOSUR’s possible creation and … over a four-year period, including one year prior to the MERCOSUR period (1991), we deliver empirical evidence at state …

Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors … environmentalists, MERCOSUR and WTO tribunals have now issued three separate decisions finding that these measures violate international … argue that the test applied by WTO and MERCOSUR panels in trade and environment disputes gives insufficient weight to the …

years before the date of accession. MERCOSUR shows a similar pattern in progress, but NAFTA and EFTA are more idiosyncratic …

formed, but terms-of-trade effects were also important in formation of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (Mercosur …). Terms-of-trade externalities among Mercosur's members have been internalized in the common external tariff. The theoretical … formation of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (Mercosur). Terms-of-trade effects account for between 6 percent and 28 …

free trade agreements with interested countries and is already moving in this direction. Assuming Mercosur considers this … an FTA with the UK could be completed in a relatively short period and, iii) failing Mercosur to give these talks …-of-the-envelope estimates indicating that under such an FTA, Mercosur could triple its meat exports and double its agro-industrial exports to …