This study analyzes the characteristics and the results of programs promoting technological consortiums in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. These programs are aimed to facilitate the interaction between businesses and institutions dedicated to the production of science and technology. The...

In this paper, we analyze the changes in the Chilean economy specialization patterns mainly in the period of fastest economic growth and taking into account its relative abundance of productive factors. There are three important findings in this paper that are relevant for natural resources...

This paper analyzes the evolution of firm productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry, during the post trade reform period (1979-1994). Changes in productivity for each sector are defined as technological changes and variation in technical efficiency. The econometric technique applied is...

This paper examines the relationship between exports, productivity, and technological innovation. It first analyzes the causality between the firms’ export behavior and productivity. Unlike other papers using a similar methodology, our results show no evidence of learning by exporting. In...

During the last decade, the good performance of the export sector has been one of the main sources of the rapid economic growth in the Chilean economy. This paper evaluates the impact of public promotion policies on the Chilean export performance. Using plant level data, the econometric evidence...