The current research analyzes the main variables that explain the bilateral flow's behavior of foreign direct investment. This document is emphasized on the landlocked countries, a geographic variabel which is present in almost 25 percent of all countries. The research is built through a panel...

This paper analyzes the negative effect of a weak property rights enforcement on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), as well as the role of bilateral agreements as an alternative to counteract this effect. This positive contribution takes place not only by its effect on commercial flows but also...

Este artículo examina la relación dinámica entre la inversión extranjera directa (IED), la inversión pública (IPUB) de los gobiernos locales y el crecimiento económico para el conjunto de las 32 entidades federativas en México agrupadas por región y por nivel de competitividad para el...

International tendencies in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) show that transnationalization process increased quickly in the last years. Uruguay showed in the nineties a good capacity of attract FDI. However, since the economic recovery after the 2002 crisis, the country saw huge amounts of FDI....

In the past two decades, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has gained importance in Latin American economies. This is because, as this article intends to demonstrate, increasingly sounder macro-economic stability and the fact that the region's countries have opened and flexibilized their...

The objective of this paper is to measure, through econometric techniques, the existence of trade spillovers from Transnational Corporations present in Uruguayan’s manufacturing sector in 1990-2000. The principal conclusions are that the export behavior of TNC affiliates is more significant...

This paper identifies some issues to build a research agenda on the effects of transnationalization and economic development among Mercosur countries. The first section discusses an analytical framework that aims to understand the relations between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the balance...

Durante la crisis económica actual en el conjunto de países desarrollados se ha visto un alejamiento de flujos de la inversión extranjera directa (IED), mientras que en el conjunto de países en desarrollo y en transición, se ha registrado un aumento. En este escenario y a lo largo de los...

This paper identifies some issues to build a research agenda on the effects of transnationalization and economic development among Mercosur countries. The first section discusses an analytical framework for the understanding of the relation between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the balance...

The current research analyzes the main variables that explain the bilateral flow's behavior of foreign direct investment. This document is emphasized on the landlocked countries, a geographic variabel which is present in almost 25 percent of all countries. The research is built through a panel...