INVESTIGADORES
ARZA Valeria
artículos
Título:
Mercosur: As an Export Platform. The Automotive Industry
Autor/es:
ARZA, VALERIA
Revista:
REVISTA DE LA CEPAL
Editorial:
CEPAL
Referencias:
Año: 2011 p. 129 - 152
ISSN:
0252-0257
Resumen:
The global automotive industry is dominated by a few multinational
corporations which design global and regional strategies. If regional
strategies prevailed over global ones, the Southern Common Market
(mercosur) could become a competitive export platform. This paper
reviews the extent to which trade agreements covering the automotive
industry in mercosur have helped the region develop into a platform for
exports to the rest of the world. Bilateral trade data from 1991-2005 and
gravity models are used to evaluate trade creation and export market
diversification in the automotive industry. The results show that, as of
2005, mercosur agreements had not turned the region into a platform
for exports to external markets, although they had contributed to trade
creation within the region.
