O efeito fronteira do comércio do estado do Rio Grande do Sul com os países do BRICS: uma análise gravitacional

Abstract

This dissertation is intended to measure the size of the home bias of commerce of the state of Rio Grande do Sul from 1999 to 2010. The size of the domestic bias gaucho trade was estimated using a gravity model, encompassing variables such as income, distance, population, and dummies adjacency and border effect. Empirically, the model was estimated with panel data via pooled OLS, and the data of bilateral trade flows correspond to trade status with the brazilian federal units and the BRICS countries. The results found for the size of home bias of commerce of the state of Rio Grande do Sul via OLS indicates that trade flows gaucho state with the other brazilian federative units is about 2.23 times larger than the state of bilateral flows Rio Grande do Sul with the BRICS countries.