AN ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF REGIONAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN BRAZIL AND THE EUROPEAN UNION TO THE BRAZILIAN EXPORTS AGROINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS

• Grant number: 13/19278-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - International Economy
• Principal Investigator: Heloisa Lee Burnquist
• Grantee: Diogo Del Fiori
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to evaluate if there creation or trade diversion in exports of agro products from Brazil to the European Union, in the period before and after the entry of Brazil in Mercosur. Specifically, we seek to determine the relative importance of trade diversion with respect to gains for countries that take a prominent position in the regional, as in the case of Brazil's trade with the European Union. Also evaluates to what degree the application of non-tariff barriers affect trade between Brazil and the EU, compared with the context in which trade between the EU and Mercosur evolves without barriers. This analysis will be performed using a gravity model, including the following agricultural products: beef, chicken, pork, sugar and ethanol, roasted and soluble coffee, soybean oil and smoke. The period considered for the analysis comprises the last five years (1985-2013) in order to capture a more recent evolution of these relations.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FIORI, Diogo Del. An assessment of potential effects of regional agreements between Brazil and the European Union for exports of Brazilian agricultural products. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.