Exploring the geographical bias of manufactured exports in MERCOSUR

Fernando Delbianco (), Andrés Fioriti and Germán González

No 4339, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers from Asociación Argentina de Economía Política

Abstract: We propose a novel approach to understand the industrialization pattern of MERCOSUR countries during the last 60 years. We perform an index to measure the geographical bias of manufactured exports between the region and the world and show that regional trade agreements allowed MERCOSUR countries to decrease de bias and increase competitiveness. However, we show that in recent years the bias deepened in favor of exporting to the region a higher proportion of manufactured goods. Our main result is that these economies present a U-shape geographical bias in manufactured exports associated with a bimodal distribution of breaks. Furthermore, we observe that the 1980 and 2000s were the most relevant periods for defining the region trends.

Keywords: Economic integration; MERCOSUR; Industrialization; Intraindustry trade; exports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F10 F14 F15 O14 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2020-11
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