En este trabajo se caracterizan los patrones de creación y destrucción de empresas en Chile entre los años 1999 y 2006. Junto con ello se analiza las matrices de transición entre los diferentes tamaños de empresas en base a los datos del Servicio de Impuestos Internos. Cabe hacer notar que...

The purpose of this paper is to formulate a theoretical framework as an alternative to the neoclassical one in order to find a more consistent explanation to the phenomenon of innovation and the process of growth. This new frame of thought, developed on the axis of the Schumpeterian process of...

Este estudio continúa la línea de investigación acerca de los determinantes de las actividades de Investigación y Desarrollo y su impacto sobre la innovación tecnológica y la productividad de las plantas manufactureras en Chile (Benavente y Crespi, 1996y Benavente 2002). Los resultados...

It may be stated that there exists, within the field of the economy, a growing consensus regarding the fact that together with capital accumulation, technological progress and its associated innovations are the central forces of the process of economic growth and increase in welfare of the...

This paper characterizes the surge of foreign capital inflows into Chile in the 1990s, it describes the policies to deal with these inflows, and analyzes the results of the policy mix used in terms of effectiveness with which flows were managed and effects on growth and investment. About 60 per...

This paper examines why the investment rates of Latin American countries have been so low, in comparison with those of the fast growing East Asian countries. First, the paper compare the private and public investment ratios of eight Latin American countries, and their likely determinants, with...

This special volume of Estudios de Economía is devoted to issues of international finance in emerging economies. Finance was at the heart of the debt crisis of the 1980s It was also a leading force in the in the Tequila Crisis, and now it has played a crucial role in the present crisis of some...