The study analyzes - direct and indirect - export employment in Bolivia, using information from both the national accounts of 2005, 2011 and 2014 and the population and housing censuses. The most important result is that the export boom, during 2005-2014, has created jobs modestly (at rates...

This research applies the gravity model to explore the main determinants of volume of Bolivian non-traditional exports. This study emphasizes the impact generated by subscriptions to commercial and preferential trade treatments with the European Union and the United States. For this purpose, a...

This paper analyzes Bolivian Global Value Chains (GVC) for 2002, 2005 and 2011, using the Vertical Specialization Index (EV) of Hummels et al. (2001) and the measure of Upstreamness of Antràs y Chor (2011) (cited by Antràs et al., 2012b). Indicators show that trade patterns are represented by...

Through a VECM, during 1961-2017 in Argentina, we found cointegration between the Multilateral Real Exchange Rate and four fundamental variables: Net Foreign Assets, Public Expenditure, Terms of Trade, and Productivity. Defining the Real Exchange Rate as domestic prices in dollars, we estimate a...

Numerous recent studies argue that higher levels of export diversification generate economic growth in developing economies. This study reviews relevant export statistics for a set of South American countries for 1995-2017 and seeks to approximate the fundamental determinants of export...