IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/elt/journl/v70y2003i277p3-20.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Historia e integración económica en Centroamérica

Author

Listed:
  • Cáceres, Luis René

    (Funcionario del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo)

Abstract

This paper presents a gravity model for trade flows between the Central American countries, which include the levels of past exports as explanatory variables. Results indicate that past exports are estimated including indexes of human capital in place of the corresponding countries’ GDP, with results showing the important role human capital exerts on trade flows. Several explanations for this result are explored, in terms of private investment functions and of the role of human capital in promoting trade. The paper ends with a series of consideration on the implication of the effects of past exports on the trajectories of economic disparities among member countries in an economic integration program.// En este artículo se presenta un modelo de gravedad para las corrientes comerciales entre los países centroamericanos en el que se incluyen las exportaciones pasadas como variables explicativas. Los resultados indican que las corrientes de comercio pasadas son importantes determinantes de las actuales. Se examinan diversas explicaciones para este resultado en términos de rezagos en la función de inversión de sector privado y del papel propulsivo que desempeñan las reducciones en el costo de transporte del comercio intrarregional. Además, se estiman ecuaciones de gravedad usando índices de capital humano en vez de los productos de las países respectivos, las que demuestran que el capital humano en vez de los productos de los países respectivos, las que demuestran que el capital humano tiene un importante papel en el dinamismo del comercio exterior. Por último, se examinan las consecuencias de los resultados de la evolución de las disparidades económicas y sociales entre los países centroamericanos.

Suggested Citation

  • Cáceres, Luis René, 2003. "Historia e integración económica en Centroamérica," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(277), pages 3-20, enero-mar.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:70:y:2003:i:277:p:3-20
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    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:elt:journl:v:70:y:2003:i:277:p:3-20. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Nuria Pliego Vinageras (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/ .

    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.