Trade and Regional Integration

   Specialization and Adjustment during the Growth of China and India: The Latin American Experience  Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Eliana Rubiano.  Policy Research Working Paper 4318 (2007)

    The Growth of China and India in World Trade: Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean  Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Isidro Soloaga.  Policy Research Working Paper 4320 (2007)

   Geopolitical Interests and Access to U.S. Markets - Daniel Lederman and C. Ozden, Economics and Politics, vol. 19, No. 2 (2007).

 LAC Response to the Growth of China and India - Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga and Guillermo Perry - August 2006

   Export Promotion Agencies: What Works and What Doesn't  Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, and L. Payton.  Policy Research Working Paper 4044 (2006)

  Innovation and Export Portfolios  Daniel Lederman, Bailey Klinger, Policy Research Working Paper 3983 (2006)

 Diversification, Innovation, and Imitation inside the Global Technological Frontier 
Daniel Lederman and Bailey Klinger, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3872, April 2006.

 DR-CAFTA: Challenges and Opportunities for Central America Carlos Felipe Jaramillo and Daniel Lederman - June 2005

 Mexican Corn: The Effects of NAFTA
Daniel Lederman and Norbert Fiess, Trade Note No. 18, September 2004 PDF

 Trade Policy Options for Argentina in the Short and Long Runs
Daniel Lederman and Pablo Sanguinetti, 2003

 R&D and Development
Daniel Lederman and William Maloney
Policy Research Working Paper 3024, 2003 PDF

 Trade Structure and Growth
Daniel Lederman and William Maloney
Policy Research Working Paper 3025, 2003 PDF


 From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy
David de Ferranti
Guillermo E. Perry
Daniel Lederman
William F. Maloney

 Trade: Towards Open Regionalism
Edited by Shahid Javed Burki,
Guillermo E. Perry and Sara Calvo


 LESSONS FROM NAFTA AND OTHER FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
 CENTRAL AMERICA -US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

 Comercio internacional: politicas, estructuras e implicaciones macro December 5, 2002, Costa Rica s

 Mexico: el TLCAN no es suficiente, December 5, 2002, Costa Rica s

 Trade Structure, Trade Policy and Economic Policy Options in Central America
Guillermo Perry, Daniel Lederman and Rodrigo Suescun
Forthcoming. Washington D.C. November, 2002

 Centroamérica: comercio internacional, políticas, estructura e implicaciones macro July 25, 2002, Guatemala s

 Comercio, productividad y desarrollo en LAC July 18-19, 2002, Bolivia s

 Trade for Development in Latin America March 6-8, 2002, Chile

 The Political Economy of Protection. Theory and the Chilean Experience
Paper available (262 pages long), forthcoming book, 2003

 The Political Economy of Unilateral Trade Liberalization: The Case of Chile
Daniel Lederman Sebastian Edwards
in Going Alone: The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade ed. J. Bhagwati. The MIT Press 2002

 Mercosur: Trade Agreement, Exchange Rate Disagreement? December 14, 2001, Regional Integration Network, Punta Del Este.

 Firm Entry and Exit, Labor Demand, and Trade Reform. Evidence from Chile and Colombia
William Maloney, Pablo Fajnzylber, and E. Riveiro
Policy Research Working Paper 2659, 2001

 Comparative Advantage and Trade Intensity: Are Traditional Endowments Destiny?
Daniel Lederman and C. Xu,
Paper available, 2001

 A Note on the Impact of Economic Reforms on the Performance of the Agriculture Sector in Latin America
Daniel Lederman and Rodrigo Soares
Paper available, 2001

 Latin America's pattern of integration in the global economy and its development implications

 Trade Structure and Growth, by D. Ledermand and W. Maloney


Background papers for "Lessons from NAFTA for Latin America & the Caribbean"

 Assessing the Effect of NAFTA's Rules of Origin, by O. Cadot, J. de Melo, A.Estevadeordal, A. Suwa-Eisenmann, and B. Tumurchudur
 Changes in the Patterns of External Financing in Mexico Since the Approval of NAFTA, by A. Cuevas, M. Messmacher, and A. Werner
 Economic Integration's Effects on Air Emissions in Mexico's Refining and Electricity Generation Sectors, by J. Gilbreath
 The Effects of CUSFTA and NAFTA on Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duty Activity, by B. Blonigen
 Emigration and Educational Attainment in Mexico, by G. Hanson
 European Integration: A Review of the Literature and Lessons from NAFTA, by N. Fiess and M. Fugazza
 The Impact of NAFTA on Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Mexico and the Excluded Countries, by A. Monge-Naranjo
 Innovation in Mexico: NAFTA Is Not Enough, by D. Lederman and W.Maloney
 Improving the Access of Mercosur's Agriculture Exports to US: Lessons from NAFTA, by P. Sanguinetti, and E. Bianchi
 Is NAFTA Polarizing Mexico? or Existe Tambien el Sur? Spatial Dimensions of Mexico's Post-Liberalization Growth, by P. Aroca, M. Bosch and W. Maloney. 461KB PDF
 Lessons from NAFTA: The Case of Mexico's Agricultural Sector, by A. Yunez-Naude
 Liberalization, Knowledge, and Technology: Lessons from Veterinary Pharmaceutics and Poultry in Mexico, by D. Meyer
 Macroeconomic Synchronization between Mexico and its NAFTA Partners, by A. Cuevas, M. Messmacher and A. Werner
 Migration, Trade and FDI in Mexico, by P. Aroca and W. F. Maloney
 Nafta and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time, by W. Easterly, N. Fiess, and D. Lederman, Economia, 4, No.1, 2003 (203K PDF)
 Did NAFTA Increase Labor Market Integration between the United States and Mexico?, by R. Robertson
 NAFTA and Mexico's Reforms on Investor Protection, by F. Lopez de Silanes
 Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion: The Case of NAFTA, by M. Schiff and Y. Wang
 Scale, Technological Change and Human Capital: Manufacturing and Development in Mexico, by D. Meyer and A. Foster
 Sources of Regional (non) Convergence in Mexico, by G. Esquivel and M. Messmacher
 Trade Integration and Rural Economies in Less Developed Countries: Lessons from Micro Economy-wide Models with Particular Attention to Mexico and Central America, by J. E. Taylor
 Why NAFTA Did Not Reach the South, by G. Esquivel, D. Lederman, M. Messmacher and R. Villoro
NAFTA's Impact on third countries: Recent evidence with a gravity model approach, by Claudio Montenegro and Isidro Soloaga


Deepening NAFTA -- A perspective for the future agenda of Mexico and the U.S.
Drafts for discussion. Please do not quote.

 Executive Summary: Deepening NAFTA (82 KB)
 Chapter 1: NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time (1228 KB)
 Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Dynamics after NAFTA: Syncronization, Volatility, and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination (155 KB)
 Chapter 3: NAFTA's Remaining Trade Barriers (1235 KB)
 Chapter 4: Factor Markets (387 KB)
 Chapter 5: Innovation in Mexico: NAFTA Is Not Enough (523 KB)