INFO2009 Genius Export Poster Assignment

All the files constituting and relating to the INFO2009 Poster Assignment entry by Genius Export

A Communication Design Handbook Vol 1 21012-13 iBooks/iPad version... PDF export

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Modelo de identificación de oportunidades de exportación al Triangulo Norte

Este proyecto busca desarrollar un modelo para la identificación de oportunidades de exportación hacia el mercado del Triángulo Norte (Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador) para una empresa típica colombiana. Se dividirá en cuatro partes. En la primera parte se expondrá el perfil macroeconómico de cada uno de los países del mercado objetivo. En la segunda parte, se desarrolla un modelo en Microsoft Excel (en adelante Modelo de identificación de Oportunidades), que hará uso de información tal como partidas arancelarias y derechos arancelarios vigentes para el año 2013 en Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador y aranceles del año 2012 para Guatemala, lo cual permitirá por medio del uso de fórmulas condicionales, identificar las ventajas comerciales para la exportación de productos colombianos hacia el Triángulo Norte. En la tercera parte, se elaborará un análisis financiero, para obtener un soporte de la viabilidad financiera del proyecto de exportación para una empresa típica y así poder justificar la ejecución del mismo. Se analizarán aspectos determinantes de la rentabilidad del proyecto como características de la empresa (existe o se constituye para el proyecto), características de los productos a ofertar, posibles canales de distribución, precios, plan de inversión y financiación, etc. Finalmente, en la cuarta parte del documento se exponen las conclusiones y recomendaciones. Esta herramienta podrá ser utilizada por cualquier agente interesado en exportar desde Colombia hacia el Triángulo Norte, bajo criterios de viabilidad financiera, en un proyecto de exportación, asumiendo escenarios diferenciados por tipos de productos, por país y por cargos arancelarios.

Information externalities and export trade duration at the firm level

Recent empirical work emphasizes the importance of the extensive margin of trade (new exporters, new export activities) for long run export growth. In this context, understanding the determinants of duration of new exporters is key for underpinning the dynamics of exports growth. As new exporters tend to show low survival rates, identifying the determinants of export duration is highly relevant for academic and policy purposes. In this paper, we explore whether information externalities arising from different levels of spatial interaction allow new exporters to increase the duration of their trade activities. For this, we use transaction level data on Colombian exports between 2004 and 2011. Results show that export networks, understood as the agglomeration of exporting firms at different spatial levels, reduce the risk of dropping out from exporting and that this effect is stronger the more similar are export activities carried out by firms

El estudio de los roles y funciones de los orientadores de secundaria utilizando la técnica de los grupos de discusión. 'The study of duties and roles of highschool counsellors by using the technique of focus groups'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación. Con el apoyo económico del departamento MIDE de la UNED

Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustments. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/11, June 2012

Sectoral shifts, such as shrinkage of low labour productivity and the low-wage construction sector, can lead to apparent increased aggregate average labour productivity and average wages, especially when capital intensity differs across sectors. For 11 main sectors and 13 manufacturing sub-sectors, we quantify the compositional effects on productivity, wages and unit labour costs (ULCs) based and real effective exchange rates (REER), for 24 EU countries. Compositional effects are greatest in Ireland, where the pharmaceutical sector drives the growth of output and productivity, but other sectors have suffered greatly and have not yet recovered. Our new ULC-REER measurements, which are free from compositional effects, correlate well with export performance. Among the countries facing the most severe external adjustment challenges, Lithuania, Portugal and Ireland have been the most successful based on five indicators, and Latvia, Estonia and Greece the least successful. There is evidence of downward wage flexibility in some countries, but wage cuts have corrected just a small fraction of pre-crisis wage rises and came with massive reductions in employment even in the business sector excluding construction and real estate, highlighting the difficulty of adjusting wages downward.

Productivity, labour cost and export adjustment: Detailed results for 24 EU countries. Bruegel Working Paper 2012/11, 12 July 2012

As a background document for Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/11 ‘Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustment’, this working paper presents detailed results for 24 EU countries on: • The sectoral changes in the economy; • The unit labour costs (ULC) based real effective exchange rate (REER) and its main components; • Export performance. • The ULC-REERs are calculated: • For the total economy, the business sector (excluding agriculture, construction and real estate activities), and some main sectors; • Using both actual aggregates and fixed-weight aggregates, as the latter are free from the impacts of compositional changes; • Against 30 trading partners and against three subsets of trading partners: euro-area, non-euro area EU, non-EU.