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International trade and migrant networks: Is It really about qualifications?
2014
Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants' educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results confirm that the existence of a large number of foreign-born workers with managerial duties is critical to explain the reduction of transaction costs caused by migrant networks.
Estimating the gravity equation with the actual number of exporting firms
2013
Para estimar correctamente el efecto de los costes de comerciar sobre las exportaciones de las empresas, la ecuación de gravedad debe controlar por el número de empresas que opera en el mercado internacional. Debido a la ausencia de datos, estudios anteriores han controlado esta variable mediante técnicas econométricas que también pueden generar estimaciones sesgadas. Para superar estos problemas este trabajo estima una ecuación de gravedad utilizando una nueva base de datos de la OCDE y EUROSTAT , que incluye el número de empresas exportadoras en cada relación bilateral. Nuestros resultados muestran que no controlar el margen extensivo genera sesgos muy importantes en la estimación de los …
Does complexity explain the structure of trade?
2013
This paper analyzes whether complexity, measured by the number of skilled tasks that are performed in production, explains countries commodity trade structure. We modify the Romalis ( ) model to incorporate advantage differences in complexity across commodities together with differences in the number of mistakes made by workers in the production process in developed and developing countries as a source of comparative advantage. Our model predicts that the share of developed countries in world trade increases with products complexity. Empirical tests confirm this prediction. Moreover, we find that complexity complements the explanation provided by skillintensity on countries commodity trade …
Price discrimination and market power in export markets: The case of the ceramic tile industry.
2005
This paper combines the pricing-to-market equation and the residual demand elasticity equation to measure the extent of competition in the export markets of ceramic tiles, which has been dominated by Italian and Spanish producers since the late eighties. The findings show that the tile exporters enjoyed substantial market power over the period 1988-1998, and limited evidence that the export market has become more competitive over time.
Market Potential and Regional Economic Growth in Spain, 1860-1930
2015
espanolEn este articulo se utilizan tecnicas parametricas y no parametricas para el analisis del impacto de los cambios registrados en el potencial de mercado de las regiones espanolas sobre su dinamica de crecimiento en el periodo 1860‐1930. El estudio del caso espanol permite analizar si la construccion de nuevas infraestructuras de transporte, asi como los cambios en la politica comercial, al afectar al potencial de mercado relativo de las regiones espanolas, acabaron por moldear sus trayectorias de crecimiento. Para la realizacion del analisis se utilizan nuevas estimaciones retrospectivas de PIB per capita de las NUTS III espanolas (provincias) y una estimacion a la Harris del potencia…