Trade Between New Zealand and Latin American Countries

Chapter 2
New Zealand – Latin American Trade: The Setting

2.1 Introduction
2.2 The LACs and New Zealand: A contrasting profile
2.3 Trade and the Political System
2.4 Privatisation, liberalization and openness
2.5 Trade composition and partners
2.6 Summary

Chapter 3
Evolution of New Zealand – Latin American Trade: 1958-1997

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Data
3.3 Evolution of Global Trade
3.4 Evolution of bilateral trade
3.5 Bilateral trade from a regional integration viewpoint
3.6 Summary and conclusion

Chapter 4
Bilateral trade and gravity models

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Gravity models: Theoretical foundation
4.3 Empirical work in the gravity tradition
4.4 Choice of variables
4.5 The adjusted gravity model
4.6 Other modeling strategies
4.7 Summary

Chapter 5
Empirical results

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Procedure
5.3 Estimates for LAC’s imports
5.4 Estimates of imports to New Zealand
5.5 Import equations with a lagged import team

Chapter 6
Summary of empirical results

6.1 Empirical results: An overall view
6.2 Summarizing the results: Economic variables
6.3 Effect of political change
6.4 Military regimens

Chapter 7
Concluding observations

7.1 Some general observations
7.2 Policy implications
7.3 Shortchomings of the study and further research

Appendix

References