Mercosur Development: an assessment of trade flows

Authors

  • Rubiane Daniele Cardoso Universidade Católica de Brasília - UCB
  • Mirian Beatriz Schneider
  • André Ricardo Bechlin Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - Unioeste. Professor da PUC-PR.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v21i1.3952

Keywords:

Mercosur. Exports. Regional Development. Gravity Equation.

Abstract

This paper search to analyze the effects of the formation of Mercosur Preferential Trade Agreement trade flows of member countries in the 1994-2009 period, using an extended gravity model that includes dummy variables for Mercosur, for UE and NAFTA (importants economic blocs), for the sectors of the economy and member country. The results show that Mercosur obtained the largest increases in trade among all regional integration schemes relevant to member countries, which highlights its importance for the members. When considering the analysis of the sectors, only agriculture had significant value, showing that the products were still predominant in this sector in the export of the Mercosur countries to all countries in the sample both in 1994, as in 2009.

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Author Biographies

Rubiane Daniele Cardoso, Universidade Católica de Brasília - UCB

Mestre em Desenvolvimento Regional e Agronegócio pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - Unioeste. Atualmente é doutoranda em economia pela Universidade Católica de Brasília - UCB.

Mirian Beatriz Schneider

Economista formada pela Unioeste, Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico pela Universidade Federal do Paraná, Dra em História Econômica pela Universidade de León Espanha e Cursando pós doc na USP-Esalq de Piracicaba. Pesquisadora do GEPEC.

André Ricardo Bechlin, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - Unioeste. Professor da PUC-PR.

Mestre em Desenvolvimento Regional e Agronegócio da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - Unioeste.

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Published

2016-05-06

How to Cite

Cardoso, R. D., Schneider, M. B., & Bechlin, A. R. (2016). Mercosur Development: an assessment of trade flows. Redes , 21(1), 9-35. https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v21i1.3952

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2016): Jan/abr 2016

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