DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhf005 (2008)
The International Bank, Doi /wber/lhf, Bernard Gauthier, Isidro Soloaga, James Tybout
This article was funded by the World Bank and the Central African Customs and Economic Union (udeac)
Foundations of Technology Diffusion ’ and for the World Bank-Bari University Conference: (2007)
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga, Enrico Mattei
Enterprises Perspective for Integration with the European Union”. The paper was written while the authors were respectively Visiting Researcher and Long Term Consultant at the World Bank’s...
Isidro Soloaga, R. Aggarwal, R. Betancourt, B. Gardner
R. López, all of them from the University of Maryland, and to an anonymous referee for comments and suggestions. The standard approach for fitting a Cobb-Douglas production function to micro-data...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter? (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Pierre Latrille, ...
Abstract: Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This paper examines why these costs are so high in some countries, and quantifies the importance of two explanations:...
Can Duty-Drawbacks have a protectionist bias? Evidence from Mercosur (2007)
Olivier Cadot Y, Marcelo Olarreaga X, Isidro Soloaga, T. N. Srinivassan, David Tarr, ...
In a political-economy setting where tari s and duty drawbacks are endoge-nously chosen through industry lobbying, it is shown that full duty-drawbacks are granted to exporters who use imported...
Aart Kraay, Isidro Soloaga, James Tybout
Melitz and Mark Roberts for useful discussions and absolve them of blame for methodological flaws that remain. Non-technical summary What mechanisms most frequently transmit foreign technologies to...
Aart Kraay, Isidro Soloaga, James Tybout
Levinsohn for useful discussions and absolve them of blame for methodological flaws that remain. I. Overview A casual tourist can confirm that technologies often make their way from the developed...
Foundations of Technology Diffusion ’ and for the World Bank-Bari University Conference: (2007)
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga, Enrico Mattei
Enterprises Perspective for Integration with the European Union”. The paper was written while the authors were respectively Visiting Researcher and Long Term Consultant at the World Bank’s...
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga, Garry Pursell, Maurice Schiff, Isidro Soloaga, David Tarr, ...
Abstract: Exporters ’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may base their future transaction decisions upon the information...
Nafta`s trade efects: new evidence with a gravity model (2006)
Soloaga, Isidro, Montenegro, Claudio
Este ensayo estima econométricamente el impacto del NAFTA sobre los flujos comerciales entre Estados Unidos y México y entre Estados Unidos y terceros países (grupo países). Usando un esquema...
A Firm's-Eye View of Commercial Policy and Fiscal Reforms in Cameroon (2002)
Gauthier, Bernard, Soloaga, Isidro, Tybout, James
After decades of high trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms in 1994. Almost simultaneously, a major...
Elena Ianchovichina, Ro Nicita, Isidro Soloaga
We use a two step computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico’s potential unilateral tariff liberalization. First, we use an already available CGE model provided by the Global...
Thesis research directed by Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba, Soloaga, Isidro, Takacs, Wendy
When countries import production machinery, they must choose between new and used equipment. This article looks at that choice in the presence of labor-saving technical progress and complementarity...
Endogenous Tariff Formation: The Case of Mercosur (1998)
Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro
Mercosur appears as an interesting case study for analyzing the determinants of exceptions in regional trade agreements. Its member countries—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—intended to...
A firm's-eye view of policy and fiscal reforms in Cameroon
Gauthier, Bernard, Soloaga, Isidro, Tybout, James
After decades of heavy trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms. Almost simultaneously, a major CFA...
When vintage technology makes sense : matching imports to skills
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba, Soloaga, Isidro, Takacs, Wendy
Trade policies in many developing countries discriminate--through import bans, licensing requirements, or higher tariff rates. Even Australia adds a $12,000 tariff on used cars. Such discrimination...
Bargains Rejected? Developing Country Trade Policy on Used Equipment
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga, Wendy Takacs
Many developing countries restrict imports of second-hand goods. These policies appear contrary to the optimal choice of technique in developing countries, where low wages, small markets, and scarce...
Assessing the Vulnerability of Agricultural Households to Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Mexico
Gloria M. Rubio, Isidro Soloaga
This paper uses cross-sectional data from Mexico before and after the 1994 peso crisis to analyze rural household vulnerability to macroeconomic shocks. The study suggests that agricultural...
Lederman, Daniel, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro
This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus...
How has regionalism in the 1990s affected trade?
Soloaga, Isidro, Winters, L. Alan
The authors apply a gravity model to data on annual non-fuel imports for 58 countries for the years 1980-96, to quantify the effects on trade of recently created or revamped preferential trade...
What's behind MERCOSUR's common external tariff?
Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro, Winters, Alan
The theoretical literature on trade follows two different approaches to explaining the endogenous formation of customs unions: 1) The terms-of-trade approach, in which integrating partners are...
The standard approach for fitting a Cobb-Douglas production function to micro data with zero values is to replace those values with"sufficiently small"numbers to facilitate the logarithmic...
Weightless machines and costless knowledge - an empirical analysis of trade and technology diffusion
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio, Soloaga, Isidro
The authors examine the impact on productivity of technologies imported by a sample of developing, and transition economies in Central and Easter Europe, and the Southern Mediterranean - economies...
Trade reform and household welfare : the case of Mexico
Ianchovichina, Elena, Nicita, Alessandro, Soloaga, Isidro
The authors use a two-step, computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico's potentially unilateral tariff liberalization. First, they use a computable general equilibrium model...
Kraay, Aart, Soloaga, Isidro, Tybout, James
What mechanisms most frequently transmit foreign technologies to developing country firms? Do these foreign technologies affect both productive efficiency and product quality in the recipient firms?...
Moving forward faster : trade facilitation reform and Mexican competitiveness
Soloaga, Isidro, Wilson, John S., Mejia, Alejandro
Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the past decade. The authors evaluate the impact of changes in trade facilitation...
Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge: An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio, Soloaga, Isidro
This Paper examines the impact of imported technologies on productivity for a sample of developing and transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Southern Mediterranean. These...
Trade Reform and Poverty: The Case of Mexico
Elena Ianchovichina, Alessandro Nicita, Isidro Soloaga
We use a two-step computationally simple procedure to analyse the effects of Mexico's's potential unilateral tariff liberalisation on real incomes. First, we use the CGE model provided by the Global...
An Evaluation of Training for the Unemployed in Mexico.
Marcelo Delajara, Samuel Freije, Isidro Soloaga
This paper summarizes the findings of an impact evaluation of the Mexican training programs PROBECAT_SICAT for the period 1999-2004. The paper has five additional sections. Section 2 provides an...
Growth and Poverty. The case of México
Although poverty levels have been diminishing in Mexico since the late 90’s, several regions still show high levels of poverty which are extremely high in some rural areas. The paper addresses...
Endogenous Tariff Formation: The Case of Mercosur
Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro
This paper confronts the results of the endogenous tariff literature with MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Sur, literally, ‘the Common Market of the Southern Cone’) evidence. It is shown that...
Regionalism in the Nineties: What Effect on Trade?
Soloaga, Isidro, Winters, L Alan
The paper applies a gravity model to 1980-1996 annual non-fuel imports data for 58 countries to quantify the effects of recently created or revamped PTAs on trade. We modify the usual gravity...
Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro, Winters, L Alan
The theoretical literature follows two different approaches to explain the endogenous formation of a Customs Union (CU). The first one explains CU formation through the willingness of integrating...
A Firm's-Eye View of Commercial Policy and Fiscal Reforms in Cameroon
Bernard Gauthier, Isidro Soloaga, James Tybout
After decades of high trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms in 1994. Almost simultaneously, a major...
Nafta´s trade efects: new evidence with a gravity model
Claudio E.Montenegro, Isidro Soloaga
This paper estimates econometrically the impact of NAFTA on US-Mexico and US-third countries (groups of countries) trade flows. Using a traditional gravity-equation framework, we try to see to what...
Assessing the Vulnerability of Agricultural Households to Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Mexico
Rubio, Gloria M., Soloaga, Isidro
This paper uses cross-sectional data from Mexico before and after the 1994 peso crisis to analyze rural household vulnerability to macroeconomic shocks. The study suggests that agricultural...
Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga
This paper examines the impact of imported technologies on productivity for a sample of developing and transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Southern Mediterranean. These...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Mexico
Soloaga, Isidro, Lara, Gabriel
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,