El objetivo de este artículo es verificar si el patrón geográfico de comercio exterior de las empresas extranjeras en Brasil se diferencia del de las empresas nacionales, y si entre las empresas extranjeras la región de origen de su capital constituye un factor importante para determinar ese...

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballero-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The...

Using the same model that Caballero-Urdiales {\it et al.} (2012) and Brito-Gaona and Iglesias (2017) applied to Latin-American countries, we extend their analysis to the European Union (EU) in order to analyze the determinants of private investment. Results show consistent evidence with three...