This paper estimates the impact of external shocks, business cycle, and a set of six preferential trade arrangements that Peruvian economy has faced during period 1950-2007 upon the agriculture product and its two components, the external and internal product. The results indicate that external...

El presente trabajo estima el efecto del grado de integración comercial, financiera y especialización sectorial sobre el grado de sincronización entre los ciclos del producto agropecuario peruano y el producto de 31 países socios del Perú para el período 1982-2006. Dicho efecto resultó...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo proveer los lineamientos generales del rol del sector externo, en particular el de las exportaciones, en las distintas opciones o programas de estabilización propuestos tanto por instituciones internacionales, gobierno y sectores academices. El trabajo se...

This paper develops an international Dumping model of imperfect competition based upon the comparative advantage between (developed, DCs and developing, LDCs) countries in order to assess the Dumping GATT rules. The main results of this model indicate: on the first place, without trade...

This paper assesses the institutional setting and productive impact of selected productive development policies (PDPs), institutions, and programs implemented in Peru during the period 1990-2007. The assessment is based on a simple, basic framework of a series of economic or market failures that...

This paper presents a new set of index numbers applicable to transition economies and developing countries wherein trade and structural reforms are taking place. This index, applied to Nicaragua, takes special account of changes and product composition and is designed to disaggregate the...

This paper uses a new set of index numbers derived from Aw and Roberts (1989) and formalized in Tello (1997) by which changes in the current value of exports (or imports) can be decomposed into three components: a price change component, a quantity change component, and a product composition...

This paper examines the impact of external shocks and six preferential trade arrangements faced by the Peruvian economy during the period 1950-2007. The focus was the agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), its external and internal components, and the associated two sets of relative prices....