The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

Spanish Abstract: Las empresas extranjeras, como vehículos de la inversión extranjera directa (IED), se les consideran como un canal que pueden contribuir al crecimiento y desarrollo de las regiones, al incremento del nivel de empleo, y como un factor que tiene la capacidad de transferir nuevo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

During the global crisis, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has withdrawn from developed economies and has substantially increased in emerging and transitional economies. In this scenario, Mexican MNEs have been spreading during the last four years, after starting their internationalization two...

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...

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...

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...