Regional policies aiming to attract new firms are largely based on evidence that originates from Europe, the USA and Japan. This may raise doubts about the usefulness of such policies when applied to developing economies. This paper addresses this issue by providing estimates of the determinants...

Firm turnover (entry, exit and survival) inside manufacturing markets and the determinants of location of new ventures in a specific territory are relapsing subjects in the area of, respectively, Industrial Organization and Regional and Urban Economics. However, from beginnings of the nineties...

El período de crecimiento económico comprendido entre los años 2003 y 2008, interrumpió un prolongado proceso de desindustrialización del tejido empresarial argentino, que había comenzado a mediados de la década del '70 y se había profundizado durante los años '90 hasta la crisis de...

We analyse the determinants of firm entry in developing countries using Argentina as an illustrative case. Our main finding is that although most of the regional determinants used in previous studies analysing developed countries are also relevant here, there is a need for additional explanatory...

Intra-industry trade (IIT) is a growing component of world trade, especially in developed countries. It generates less redistributive effects and lower demands for protection. In these countries, the empirical evidence on its determinants is wide, but it is not the case for Latin American...