The paper analyzes the determinants of industry employment location across Argentine provinces. On one hand, we looked at those determinants suggested by the traditional trade theory emphasizing the role of factor endowments. On the other hand, we explored the role of economies of scale combined...

In many countries fiscal decentralization characterizes the relationship among different levels of government. In those countries, local authorities have the prerogative to tax their constituencies. However, fiscal decentralization is seldom balanced in terms of tax and expenditure assignments....

The Argentine economy has gone through important reforms during the nineties. Many of these reforms aimed at integrating the domestic economy with world trade and investment flows. There is a vast theoretical literature that links trade and investment liberalization with technological progress...

Chenery and Syrquin (1975) established the “stylized fact†about the evolution of the agricultural sector through the process of development, whereby agriculture’s share in national GDP tends to decline with development. Does this mean that from a policy point of view resources...

This paper employs a new global panel data set on innovation related variables to examine patterns of R&D investment across the development process. We find that R&D effort measured as a share of GDP rises with development at an increasing rate, but that several countries have experienced...

What has been the impact of the trade liberalization on the regional and industrial wage structure in Brazil? This paper attempts to shed light on the determinants of the evolution of wages during the period 1986-1999. We approach this question relying on the main insights of the new economic...