Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39469 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 23-2003
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
Trade policy changes are likely to result in a reallocation of resources across sectors and space. Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed a regional bloc, Mercosur. The effects of these reforms on production structures in these countries have not received a great deal of attention. Have patterns of manufacturing concentration changed? What are their main determinants? This paper analyses relative manufacturing concentration patterns in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay over the period 1985-1998. The econometric evidence indicates that localization of demand and comparative advantages are the main driving forces of these patterns. The establishment of Mercosur seems to have played a role in the spatial distribution of manufacturing in the above three countries.
Subjects: 
Economic Integration
Concentration of Industries
Comparative advantage
Economic Geography
Mercosur
JEL: 
L60
F14
F15
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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