We take advantage of a worldwide dataset that incorporates the technological content of each product and its quality to unveil some features of Brazil-China's trade flows and challenge the view that the emergence of China would imply the deindustrialization of Brazilian exports. We show that...

This paper estimates the degree of trade integration between Brazilian states and the magnitude of barriers faced by their exporters in the 1990s. Using the border effects methodology, we show that the Brazilian market remains highly fragmented, although integration is increasing. In 1991 an...

As was shown in some previous studies, the creation of the North American Free Trade American (NAFTA) has significantly increased trade and investment flows between member countries. Consequently, it seems appropriate to analyze the incidences of the free trade agreement on the nature of trade....

Depuis le début de la décennie, les pays du Mercosur ont connu une forte croissance des échanges et des investissements directs étrangers (IDE). Nous examinons les liens entre les IDE, le commerce et l'intégration régionale dans le cadre de la formation du Mercosur, à l'aide d'équations...

This paper looks at the regionalisation of trade in South America, by looking at trends in trade during the 1994-2007 period. It finds that the increasing political will to strengthen regional arrangements like Mercosur and the Andean Community, has not impacted extensively on the overall level...

Purpose – This paper aims to exploit a new trade database to explore the extent to which trade, and the industrial division of labor which it represents, is regional in nature.Design/methodology/approach – The analysis focuses especially on intermediates trade, in three key regions – the...