Artículo de revista ; This article describes the main characteristics of the trade agreement reached between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in 2019 and presents estimates of its possible impact on trade and GDP in the two areas." "It is an ambitious...

Este artículo estima el impacto del MERCOSUR sobre los flujos comerciales y el bienestar usando un modelo de gravedad estructural cuantitativo estándar. El impacto sobre los flujos de comercio bilateral y sobre el bienestar es altamente heterogéneo entre los países del MERCOSUR. El aumento...

La teoría económica sugiere incluir el comercio interno al estimar un modelo de gravedad estructural. Esta inclusión permite identificar parámetros que no pueden ser estimados si tomamos en consideración solamente los flujos de comercio internacional. Sin embargo, el comercio interno puede...

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...

Background Thousands of shipments of radioisotopes developed in the United States (U.S.) are transported domestically and internationally for medical and industrial applications, including to partner laboratories in European Union (EU) countries. Over the past five years, the Environmental...

This paper identifies and analyzes the changes that have occurred in terms of territorial and commodity structure of agrarian trade (exports) of countries of the Visegrad Group (or V4 -i.e. Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) in the period 1993-2008. In terms of methodological...

Trading schemes for emission allowances have become a panacea for nations aspiring toreduce their aggregate emissions of greenhouse gases from industry in a cost-effectivemanner. The contention of this paper is that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) shouldnot be based on blanket coverage of...

We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member. We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...

Wage shares have fallen substantially in Europe since the early 1980s. To some extent this is due to a macroeconomic policy package that encourages wage flexibility and wage competition. A system of wage coordination in the Euro area would facility a return to a productivity-oriented wage policy...