The paper reviews the factors accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). It then discusses the evolution of M&A trades, their relative importance and the economic sectors that have been influenced by M&As in sixteen Latin-American economies during 1990-2014. An integral model is developed...

High inequality of wealth and income (or its concentration) is nowadays an international concern, although in many Latin American countries the only concern is to reduce poverty due to a vision associated with the trickle-down economy (Roberts 2022). From the neoliberal perspective and from that...