Address of the Initiator of the Arnoldshain Seminars
Ulrich Peter Ritter
James Fenimore Cooper: An Astute and Critical Precursor
of Comparisons in the Social Sciences ........................... 3
Gabriele Tondl
Trade and Integration in Latin America and with Its Main
Trading Partners ............................................... 17
Part 1: Open Economy Macroeconomics ............................ 39
Sergio V. Bar one and Alberto M. Diaz Cafferata
Rigidities in Openness, Export Performance and Indicators of
External Solvency in Argentina ................................. 41
Fernando Zarzosa Valdivia
Real Exchange Rate Movements, Dutch Disease and Functional
and Sectoral Income Distribution ............................... 81
Michael Brei
The Impact of Current Account Reversals on Relative Prices:
The Brazilian Experience ...................................... 111
Part 2: Institutions for Development: The Case of
Corruption ............................................ 129
Wolfgang Hetzer
The European Budget, A Breeding Ground for Corruption? ........ 131
Basilia Aguirre
The Multiple Faces of Wrongdoing - A Closer Look on
Corruption .................................................... 141
Part 3: Trade and Integration Issues .......................... 149
Laura Marquez-Ramos and Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso
On Distance Effects in Gravity Models - Short Versus Long
Distances ..................................................... 151
Dierk Herzer
Trade, its Composition and Total Factor Productivity:
Cointegration Evidence for Chile .............................. 169
Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Danzinger, Dierk Herzer,
Sebastian Vollmer and Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso
Chile's Market Share in the EU Market: The Role of Price
Competition in a Panel Analysis Setting ....................... 189
Maria Luisa Recalde and Marcelo Florensa
Mercosur: Trade Creation or Trade Diversion? An Application
of the Gravity Model and Kalman Filter ........................ 221
Rinaldo Antonio Colome and Fernando M. Giuliano
Agricultural Policies and Trade in the European Union and
Selected Latin American Countries ............................. 249
Matteo Grazzi and Antonella Mori
The Regulation of FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean:
What Impact on Host Countries? ................................ 271
Angel Enrique Neder, Julieta Schiro and Jonatan Saul
Financial Integration in Some Countries of South America -
The Use of Interest Parity Conditions as Indicators ........... 307
Part 4: Regional Issues ....................................... 323
Jose Luis Arrufat, Alberto J. Figueras, Valeria J.
Blanco and M. Dolores De La Mata
Analysis of Regional Income Mobility in Argentina ............. 325
Jorge Alberto Fornero
Do Mercosur Countries Converge in Per Capita GDP and
Productivity? ................................................. 351
Basilia Aguirre and Guilherme Dias
Fiscal Reform and Federal Relations ........................... 389
List of Authors ............................................... 413
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