Se analiza en este trabajo la dinámica de la productividad de la industria colombiana en el período 1981-2002. Para ello se realizan cálculos de la productividad total de los factores (PTF) usando técnicas semiparamétricas con datos a nivel de planta. Se muestra que la productividad...

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....

Este documento analiza los grandes cambios en las principales áreas de política económica estructural en América Latina entre 1985 y 2009 y presenta un conjunto de índices que intentan medir qué tan favorables son para el libre funcionamiento de los mercados las políticas comercial,...

Este trabajo presenta un modelo multivariado para explicar la dinámica de tres fuentes de fondos de vital importancia para los países en vías de desarrollo, a saber: las remesas, la inversión extranjera directa (IED) y los ingresos provenientes de las exportaciones. El modelo fue estimado...

This research is aimed to test the hypothesis that the real effective exchange rate between Spain's manufacturing sectors and its European Union partners has been governed by the relative vertically integrated unit labor costs and the intrasectoral differences of the profit rate during...

Exports are a determining variable of the national product so the objective is to perform quantitative estimations, first taking them in an aggregate manner, then by group of products and finally by the main destination market, considering here the four main ones constituted by the US, Chile,...

La exportación de minerales contribuye en gran proporción a la economía peruana, permitiéndole el desarrollo de varios sectores. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar el comportamiento de los cinco principales productos mineros de exportación peruana y comparar los resultados...

This paper identifies factors that explain the survival of Argentine trade flows using the combination of the Classification And Regression Tree analysis (CART) method and cross-section econometrics as the identification method. While the first determines the best predictors, the second offers a...

The relationship between exports and economic growth has been widely discussed in the literature, although there is currently no clear consensus on the subject. This article evaluates the hypothesis that the exportdiversification is linked to economic growth through externalities of the type...