In March 2012, as part of a tribute in recognition of the career of Enrique Iglesias Iglesias was presented a new book series entitled MercoNet "Enrique V. Iglesias, Intuition and Ethics in building the future." The presentation was held in the Central Bank within the activities of the Annual Assembly of Governors held in Montevideo.

MercoNet Series No 17The export of services is one of the most dynamic phenomena in the contemporary international economy. Activities that were previously undertaken largely within borders are now internationally tradable. Such activities range from health and education, to accounting, legal services, research and development, advertisement and design.

MercoNet Series N° 18The international crisis that started in the second semester of 2008 led many governments to adopt protectionist measures as a means to prevent balance of payments problems, foster domestic economic growth and deal with the competition from excess inventories in China and other Asian countries.

MercoNet Series N° 19This book examines the integration of Latin American firms to the model of Global Value Chains (GVC), analyzing chains led by Latin American firms and evaluating their impact on trade, investment, and structural duality.

MercoNet Series N° 16 The objective of this book is to present the results of the ?Fiscal Space for Growth in the Mercosur? project which was carried out by three research institutions belonging to MercoNet (CEDES, CINVE, and UFRJ). The main objective of the studies undertaken as part of the project was to evaluate the fiscal space for growth in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from a regional and comparative perspective. In line with this objective, a large part of the effort was centered on studying the important changes to the fiscal plan that the Mercosur countries produced in this decade.

MercoNet Series Nº15 This book is a recompilation of the research results on the biofuels industry in Mercosur supported by the IDRC. There is strong consensus at the international level about the need to promote the generation of new energy sources that can replace fossil fuels. The stimulation of the production and the use of renewable energies which are less harmful to the environment and less expensive, as is the case of biofuels, has become increasingly important in the public debate and has been given priority in the political agenda.

MercoNet Series N° 14 2008 This book systematically presents the principal dimensions associated with the services trade, particularly the telecommunications and banking sectors, considering international negotiations, domestic regulations and their restrictive effect, the structure and behavior of these activities and the evaluation of the benefits of liberalization with simulations carried out with the use of a computational general equilibrium model.

Serie Red Mercosur N° 13 The research gathered in this book ? carried out by three MercoNet institutions ? focuses on growth, competitivity, and integration in Mercosur. This research is based on three ideas which are central in modern literature in the field. The first is that exports have a central role in making productivity dynamic; the second is that geography matters in so much as it can help the discovery of new activities to take advantage of growing economies of scale within the region; the third is that growth follows a path, which far from being linear, is a process of structural change that shows breaking points (acceleration and collapse). With this view, it is important to identify the factors that could accelerate the growth or avoid collapse that are typical of the region?s countries when designing policies to improve international productivity and competitivity. In order to identify these factors, growth diagnosis were carried out of the two largest Mercosur economies and of Uruguay, adopting a regional and comparative perspective and emphasizing the process of discovery in new export activities and in the role of foreign direct investment and the national innovation system

Serie Red Mercosur Nº 12 The Mercosur countries are very different in terms of their economic size and dimension, their level of development , their population, and the size of their market. Taking into account GDP, population and territory, Uruguay and Paraguay are clearly the smaller Mercosur members and they do not represent even 5% of any of these variables, while Brazil accounts for 70%. At the same time, there are other political and regulatory differences, such as a lack of coordinated macroeconomic policies and incentive policies, in particular

Mercosur Network Series N° 11 The objective of this book is to evaluate the impact of trade liberalization and institutions on economic growth in the Mercosur countries between 1990 and 2005. The study is divided in two parts. Part A is an assessment of the effects of trade liberalization and governance indicators on trade performance and the productivity of Mercosur. It includes an analysis of the bloc and case studies for each member country. Part B analyzes trade defense institutions and policy coordination between Mercosur partners, referring to international experiences in these areas.

Mercosur Network Series N° 10 Since its start, MercoNet has made an important contribution to the study of foreign direct investment (FDI) with this research being picked up by numerous publications. Most recently, it developed research on the automotive industry, due to its importance in the composition of FDI flowing into the region, as well as its impacts on the respective economies regarding employment, technological development, balance of trade and for the priority which has always been given to this industry in terms of public policy and the controversial place this industry has occupied in Mercosur negotiations.

Mercosur Network Series N° 9 Achieving a greater level of financial and monetary integration and is a pending matter in Mercosur. In the last years, a series of positive events in the macroeconomic and financial areas of the two largest economies in the region opened up new possibilities for the integration of the financial markets which were not available in the 1990s. This study researches these possibilities. Despite the low priority that financial and monetary integration have had in the Mercosur agenda, these issues were always present in the research work carried out by MercoNet since its start in 1998.

Serie Red Mercosur N° 8 MercoNet was created in 1998 with the fundamental objective of strengthening and promoting the contribution of economic research to the advancement and strengthening of the integration process in Mercosur. This book, which is the eighth in the Mercosur Network Series, contributes to the consolidation and advances of the bloc on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of signing the Asuncion Treaty (1991). The book synthesizes the research contributions into three fundamental thematic areas:

Serie Red Mercosur N° 7 The Mercosur region, and Argentina and Brazil in particular, were important in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) during the 1990s, and even today continue to attract important investment flows, although on a lesser scale. As a consequence, the presence of transnational companies and the degree of internationalization of the Mercosur economies have greatly increased in the last few years. These changes had visible impacts on the reorganization of some industrial sectors and services that went from being nationally controlled to being controlled by foreign company subsidiaries.

Serie Red Mercosur N° 6 The aim of this book is to advance the study of macroeconomic policy in Mercosur and analyze the obstacles and limitations that macroeconomic coordination within the bloc will certainly face. In light of the strengthening of trade relations between members since the Asuncion Treaty was signed in 1991, the topic is indisputably relevant. The situation of immense instability brought on at the end of the last decade and during the beginning of this one has shown how fragile integration is without policy coordination

Serie Red Mercosur N° 5 This book gathers together the results of a research project developed between 2002 and 2003 in the framework of the second cooperation program between the IDRC and the Mercosur Network (Project III ? Trade). It was a collective project carried out by seven researchers from the four Mercosur countries. The research coordinators were Julio Berlinski (DiTella), Honorio Kume (IPEA) and Marcel Vaillant (República). Additionally, Pedro Miranda (IPEA), Alvaro Ons (DECON), Fuida Piani (IPEA) and Carlos Romero (UADE) participated as co-authors of specific chapters. Finally, a group of collaborators who helped with data processing rounded out the team.

Serie Red Mercosur N° 4 This publication is the result of a joint initiative of the Mercosur Economic Research Network (MercoNet) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Ten years after signing the Asuncion Treaty, the publication is a contribution on the part of the regional academic community to Mercosur?s development and advancement

Serie Red Mercosur N° 3 Perfecting Mercosur implies the elimination of trade restrictions between member countries. Once these traditional tariff restrictions are eliminated, the trade restrictions associated with domestic regulations will receive special attention. For this reason, this book has concentrated on analyzing the less visible boundaries that affect the free flow of goods within Mercosur. Some of these are physical boundaries, such as those related to customs; others are technical, related to domestic regulations or regional regulations not internalized in each country. Finally, there are fiscal boundaries. The potential benefit of removing these restrictions is indicated by their costs

MercoNet Series N° 2 - 2001 Mercosur is one of the most successful integration processes that has been undertaken in the world in the last decade. Among the positive results, the strong increase in trade between the members and the fact that the region has converted into one of the zones with the most foreign direct investment stand out.