This paper examines the key role of infrastructure in Andean Community trade patterns, using three gravity models. The first identifies the importance of preferential trade agreements and of geographical adjacency. The second and third models encompass these aspects while focusing on the inclusion of infrastructure in the gravity equation, testing the assumption that infrastructure endowments reduce distance (in terms of transport costs); between partners. Under the new trade arrangements, borders and previous agreements will lose significance, trade will be virtually free and bila…
Este artículo examina el papel fundamental de la infraestructura
en las modalidades de comercio de la Comunidad Andina, utilizando
tres modelos de gravedad. El primero destaca la importancia de los
acuerdos de comercio preferencial y de la proximidad geográfica. Los
otros dos también abarcan ambos aspectos, pero se centran en la
inclusión de la infraestructura en la ecuación de gravedad y comprueban
que esta contribuye a reducir la distancia (entendida como los costos
del transporte); entre las partes. Con los nuevos acuerdos comerciales,
pierden importancia las fronteras y los acu…
Using survey data on technical assistance projects that was collected by the International Competition Network's Competition Policy Implementation Working Group during 2004 and 2005, I estimate the effect of different types of technical assistance on several performance measures of recipient competition authorities. Moreover, I examine whether the impact of each type of technical assistance varies with the capacity of a recipient authority to absorb technical assistance (which I will refer to as absorptive capacity) and the socioeconomic development of the recipient country. A cle…
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