This dissertation consists of two essays concerning the determination of wages across areas. The first essay investigates the equilibrium relationship between wages and prices across labor markets. Of central interest is the extent to which workers receive higher wages to compensate for...

Este artículo considera un modelo de generaciones solapadas, aplicado a una economía pequeña, abierta al comercio internacional y caracterizada por la existencia de competencia imperfecta en los mercados de bienes y de trabajo, para analizar: i) cuáles fueron los principales determinantes de...

This manuscript studies the market conduct of the milk manufacturers and retail chains in a Midwestern state in the U.S. Following the menu approach we employ a random coefficient logit demand model to investigate several possible scenarios on the supply side. Demand estimates are obtained using...

This paper investigates the pricing and vertical organization of differentiated products under imperfect competition. In a multiproduct context, a Cournot model is used to examine how substitution/complementarity relationships among products and vertical structures can affect the exercise of...

Market access in the WTO is highly fragmented due to exceptions from GATT principles. Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) stand in contradiction to the principle of the GATT, according to which all quantitative restrictions in international trade should be eliminated. Bhagwati’s theorem of the...

The first round of negotiations held in Ottawa on the 19th October, 2009, heraldedthe opening of bilateral trade talks intent on reaching a Canadian-European Union(EU27) free trade area (FTA) agreement. A second round of negotiations were staged inBrussels in January, whilst further rounds are...

O objetivo central deste trabalho é fazer uma retrospectiva histórica do processo de formação do Mercosul, o desenvolvimento das relações comerciais, bem como o conseqüente processo de convergência e divergência neste contexto. E ainda avaliar a eficácia do processo de interação no...