Análisis del impacto de las leyes de 1992 y 1997 sobre el sistema portuario español

Abstract

Over the nineties, several changes on Port legislation where implemented in Spain. The legislation was aimed at providing port authorities with greater autonomy in some areas. In this paper we analyze the impact of the reforms on merchandise trading. We try to ascertain the impact of the reforms on total merchandise trade series for Spain, by making use of unobserved components models and transfer function models.Port legislation; time series analysis; structural change; merchandise trade