Spanish Abstract: Tras analizar conjuntamente la evolución de las exportaciones de los principales países latinoamericanos en la última década y examinar caso a caso los determinantes del desempeño de cada país, este estudio concluye que la competitividad del sector manufacturero en la...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia el desempeño comercial de los 12 principales países exportadores de bienes industriales en el período 2004-2013, analizando tanto la pretendida asociación existente entre la productividad laboral y la competitividad externa como el rol de las...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo analiza la vinculación existente entre la diversificación de las exportaciones y la competitividad externa del sector industrial en países de ingresos medios. Los resultados muestran una relación positiva significativa entre el grado de diversificación y 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....

This paper shows the relationship between business growth and private corruption in the manufacturing industry in Colombia. This study investigates the dynamics of these variables using various techniques by implementing empirical models: estimations via panel data estimates and modeling with...

This study decomposes both the labor productivity gap and the labor productivity growth into the contributions of technical efficiency, capital deepening and technological change for Mexican manufacturing at the regional level. In order to do so, we apply a methodology that combines two...

The main objective of this Working Paper is to present long-term series (1950-2020) for the functional distribution of income at subsector level for argentine industry (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities -ISIC- rev. 3). For this purpose, we recovered...

The main objective of this Working Paper is to present a long-term series (1950-2019) for the functional distribution of income in the Argentinean manufacturing sector. For this purpose, the work is divided according to the methodologies used: linear interpolation for the base years 1986, 1993...

This research presents a methodology to identify regional clusters based on the estimation of location's coefficients and measures of spatial autocorrelation. Local Moran I index is used as a measure of spatial autocorrelation, which allows to obtain a more varied typology of regional clusters....

Actualmente, es vital para la empresa manufacturera contar con determinadas características, las cuales, logren establecer claramente la diferencia entre éstas y sus similares, por lo tanto es necesario avanzar en el desarrollo de las ventajas competitivas; y así, demostrar cuales son las...