Sectorial price and quantify indexes of argentina foreing trade?

GUIDO ZACK; MEDINA FERNANDO; RICARDO MARTÍNEZ

Bahia Blanca

Congreso; ? XX JORNADAS LATINOAMERICANAS DE TEORIA ECONOMICA; 2019

Instituto de Investigaciones Econòmicas y Sociales del Sur, CONICET-UNS y Departamento de Economìa (UNS).

Argentine official foreign trade price indexes show insufficient disaggregation for sectorial analysis, as well as for estimating and comparing volumes of exports and imports. There are even some difficulties for comparing with other countries or other economic variables due to the lack of current disaggregation. For this reason, this paper aims to present a methodology for the calculation of those more disaggregated indexes, based on data from Foreign Trade Consultation System of INDEC, which have the limitation of not relieving prices, but unit values. After presenting the methodology, it is applied to the Argentine quarterly time-series data of imports and exports disaggregated into two-digit ISIC and its accuracy is shown from the comparison with Brazil price indexes.