En el contexto de una globalizacion cada vez mayor, las economias pequenas latinoamericanas se hallan confrontadas a una serie de desafios y oportunidades en que su dimension economica se considera generalmente una desventaja. Las deseconomias de escala aumentan sus costos de produccion mientras...

Este ensayo presenta una evaluacion econometrica del efecto en la tasa del crecimiento economico de la liberacion de la cuenta comercial y la cuenta de capital, la reforma fiscal y financiera y la privatizacion, partiendo de un modelo estadistico estimado con datos de 17 paises latinoamericanos...

The article analyzes the role of international supply chains as transmission channels of a financial shock. In these production networks, individual firms rely on each other, either as supplier of intermediate goods or client for their own production. An exogenous financial shock affecting a...

LDCs' trade in goods and services changed in the past decade, thanks to the rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting high international commodity prices. This process led to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a...

Besides facilitating access to the world market, WTO accession negotiations entail a process of domestic reforms that are expected to improve the supply side of acceding economies. However, measuring the actual impact of accession remains an empirical debate. The present paper contributes to the...