Intraregional trade in South America, 1913-50. Economic linkages before institutional agreements

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Peres Cajías, José Alejandro
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Badia-Miró, Marc
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Carreras Marín, Anna
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2013-01-09T12:42:06Z
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2013-01-09T12:42:06Z
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2012
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2013-01-09T12:42:06Z
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1136-8365
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/33273
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Dejando de lado NAFTA, la integración comercial en América Latina sigue siendo muy moderada hoy en día, representando alrededor del 20% del comercio total. Lo sorprendente es que estos valores eran más altos en 1945. Esto constituye un hecho paradoxal: la integración comercial alcanzó su récord antes de la firma de acuerdos de integración comercial. En el presente trabajo se estudia el comercio intrarregional a lo largo del período de entreguerras (1913-1950) a través del análisis de cinco casos: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile y Peru. El análisis de la integración comercial en este período representa una novedad en la literatura, ya que los trabajos sobre América Latina, específicos de comercio intraregional, se centran en el período a partir de la década de 1960. El documento destaca dos conclusiones principales: a) con la excepción de los períodos de las guerras mundiales, el comercio intraregional ha sido muy modesto desde 1913 hasta la actualidad, b) en general, el comercio intrarregional repitió la especialización del comercio mundial: una alta concentración en productos de bajo valor añadido.
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With the exception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration is still modest in Latin America, at around 20% of total trade. Surprisingly, these levels were higher in 1945, when the figure for imports stood at 25.6%. Paradoxically, this result shows that trade integration reached its peak before trade integration agreements were signed. To understand the reasons for this, we examine intraregional trade throughout the interwar period (1913-1950). We analyze five national cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru. As far as we know, this is the first paper in the literature on intraregional trade during the interwar period. There are other papers on intraregional trade in Latin America, but they focus on the period after the 1960s. The analysis of intraregional trade in the interwar period is also useful to the Latin American industrialization debate. Given the disruption in world trade flows and the existence of some industrial capacity, the paper looks at any possible increase in intra-industry trade. There are two main conclusions: a) with the exception of the World War periods, intraregional trade has been low since 1913; b) in general, intraregional trade reflects the overall trade specialization: there is a high concentration of low value added products.
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30 p.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa
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Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ere.ub.es/dtreball/E12270.rdf/view
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Documents de treball (Facultat d'Economia i Empresa. Espai de Recerca en Economia), 2012, E12/270
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[WP E-Eco12/270]
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cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Peres Cajías et al., 2012
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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UB Economics – Working Papers [ERE]
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Integració econòmica
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Globalització (Economia)
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Comerç exterior
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Cooperació internacional
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Història econòmica
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Amèrica Llatina
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Economic integration
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Globalization (Economics)
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Foreign trade
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International cooperation
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Economic history
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Latin America
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Intraregional trade in South America, 1913-50. Economic linkages before institutional agreements
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info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper


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