IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/col/000443/017772.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

¿Es la integración regional un vehículo para la convergencia? El caso del Mercosur, 1990-2014

Author

Listed:
  • Paula Andrea Nieto Alemán
  • Jaime Alberto Rendón Acevedo

Abstract

Este artículo responde a dos cuestionamientos: a) ¿el proceso de integración regional en el Mercosur, desde su lanzamiento con el Tratado de Asunción (1991), ha contribuido a la reducción de las disparidades en el ingreso per cápita entre los países de la región?, b) ¿se ha dado convergencia vía el comercio intrazona? Para responderlos, fue necesario revisar el marco teórico de la integración y buscar explicaciones que justificaran el proceso de integración en el Mercosur bajo el esquema de unión aduanera y su vinculación con la convergencia. Se entiende la integración como un proceso económico influenciado por las estructuras productivas de los países y cuyo patrón de comercio responde a la asignación de recursos de la estructura sectorial de la producción. Utilizando el modelo por efectos fijos, se observó que las regresiones no evidencian existencia de β-convergencia en el PIB per cápita del conjunto de países. Adicionalmente, se estimó un modelo en el que se incluye el índice de apertura global y el índice de apertura intrarregional. Los resultados no revelan presencia de β-convergencia condicional para el conjunto de países. Se puede concluir que el Mercosur no ha favorecido el crecimiento de los países en términos de PIB per cápita.

Suggested Citation

  • Paula Andrea Nieto Alemán & Jaime Alberto Rendón Acevedo, 2019. "¿Es la integración regional un vehículo para la convergencia? El caso del Mercosur, 1990-2014," Revista Finanzas y Politica Economica, Universidad Católica de Colombia, vol. 11(1), pages 23-39, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000443:017772
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://editorial.ucatolica.edu.co/index.php/RFYPE/article/view/2872
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. ?gel de la Fuente, "undated". "Convergence Across Countries And Regions: Theory And Empirics," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 447.00, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
    2. Karras, Georgios, 1997. "Economic Integration and Convergence: Lessons from Asia, Europe and Latin America," Journal of Economic Integration, Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University, vol. 12, pages 419-432.
    3. Brida, Juan Gabriel & London, Silvia & Rojas, Mara, 2012. "Convergencia interregional en dinámica de regimenes: el caso del Mercosur [Regional convergence of dynamic of regimens: the case of Mercosur]," MPRA Paper 36863, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Fernando Massi (coordinador) & María Inés Terra (coordinador) & Roberto Bouzas & Juan Cresta Arias & Alessia Lo Turco & Pedro Da Motta Veiga & María inés Terra & Red MERCOSUR, 2008. "Asimetrías en el MERCOSUR: ¿Impedimento para el crecimiento?," Serie Red MERCOSUR, Red Mercosur, edition 1, volume 1, number 12 edited by Red MERCOSUR, Spring.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Fábio Gomes, 2007. "Convergence in Income Inequality: the Case of Brazilian Municipalities," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 15(15), pages 1-9.
    2. International Monetary Fund, 2008. "Macroeconomic Effects of EU Transfers in New Member States," IMF Working Papers 2008/223, International Monetary Fund.
    3. Daniel Stavárek & Lucie Tomanova, 2014. "Is the Region of Visegrad Countries on the Track to the Euro Area? Recent Evidence from the Real Convergence Perspective," Economy of region, Centre for Economic Security, Institute of Economics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 1(3), pages 130-139.
    4. Bienvenido Ortega & Antonio Casquero & Jesús Sanjuán, 2016. "Corruption and Convergence in Human Development: Evidence from 69 Countries During 1990–2012," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 127(2), pages 691-719, June.
    5. Ismael Sanz & Francisco J. Velazquez, 2001. "The evolution and convergence of the government expenditure composition in the OECD countries: an analysis of the functional distribution," European Economy Group Working Papers 9, European Economy Group.
    6. Stoyan Totev, 2010. "Economic Integration and Conversion in the EU Member States," Economic Thought journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 5, pages 3-23.
    7. Leone Leonida, 2023. "What Have We Not Learned from the Convergence Debate?," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-22, April.
    8. Azomahou, Théophile T. & El ouardighi, Jalal & Nguyen-Van, Phu & Pham, Thi Kim Cuong, 2011. "Testing convergence of European regions: A semiparametric approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 1202-1210, May.
    9. Daniele, Vittorio, 2007. "Divari regionali e crescita del Mezzogiorno, 1980-2004 [Sources of growth and convergence among Italian regions 1980-2004]," MPRA Paper 4994, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 02 Aug 2007.
    10. Thomas Straubhaar & Marc Suhrcke & Dieter Urban, 2002. "Divergence. Is it Geography?," Development Working Papers 158, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano.
    11. Mari-Carmen Puigcerver-PeUNICODE{0xf1}alver, 2004. "The Impact of Structural Funds Policy on European Regions Growth. A Theoretical and Empirical Approach," Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings 141, Econometric Society.
    12. P. Kiss, Gábor, 2002. "A fiskális jelzőszámok új megközelítésben [A new approach to fiscal index numbers]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(4), pages 292-319.
    13. Laurens Cherchye & Wim Moesen, 2003. "Institutional Infrastructure and Economic Performance: Levels versus Catching Up and Frontier Shifts," Public Economics Working Paper Series ces0314, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Working Group Public Economics.
    14. Bitsch, Florian & Buchner, Axel & Kaserer, Christoph, 2010. "Risk, return and cash flow characteristics of infrastructure fund investments," EIB Papers 4/2010, European Investment Bank, Economics Department.
    15. Martín, Carmela & Mulas-Granados, Carlos & Sanz, Ismael, 2005. "Spatial distribution of R&D expenditure and patent applications across EU regions and its impact on economic cohesion," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 6, pages 41-61.
    16. Floro Ernesto Caroleo & Gianluigi Coppola, 2006. "The Impact of the Institutions on Regional Unemployment Disparities in Europe," Discussion Papers 4_2006, D.E.S. (Department of Economic Studies), University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy.
    17. W.A. NaudÈ & W.F. Krugell, 2003. "An Inquiry into Cities and their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 12(4), pages 476-499, December.
    18. Engel, Eduardo & Fischer, Ronald & Galetovic, Alexander, 2010. "The economics of infrastructure finance: Public-Private Partnerships versus public provision," EIB Papers 2/2010, European Investment Bank, Economics Department.
    19. Joanna Tyrowicz & Piotr Wojcik, 2010. "Active Labour Market Policies and Unemployment Convergence in Transition," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 2(1), pages 46-72, January.
    20. Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga, 2010. "Convergence Patterns in Latin America," Economics Working Papers 2010-15, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    convergencia y divergencia regional; integración regional; unión aduanera; Mercosur.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:col:000443:017772. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Universidad Católica de Colombia (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feuccco.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.