This paper explores the effect of market access on firms’ export performance and their survival on foreign markets. The data used cover all Peruvian exporting firms between 2002 and 2008, a period during which Peru was active in joining the global economy. This is done using two indices: one...

This paper explores the extent of price transmission from inter-national agricultural prices to local producer prices. The question is whether price transmission is different when international prices go up from when they go down. From a theoretical prospect we expect the presence of...