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....

This paper identifies some issues to build a research agenda on the effects of transnationalization and economic development among Mercosur countries. The first section discusses an analytical framework that aims to understand the relations between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the balance...

This paper identifies some issues to build a research agenda on the effects of transnationalization and economic development among Mercosur countries. The first section discusses an analytical framework for the understanding of the relation between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the balance...

This article discusses what kind of productive complementarities are needed between the Mercosur’s countries, in order to maximize the contribution to industrial development of the integration process, taking into account the international restrictions related to the Peripherical structural...

The objective of this paper is to measure, through econometric techniques, the existence of horizontal and vertical spillovers form Transnational Corporations presence in Uruguayan's manufacturing sector in 1990-2000. We concluded that the factorial productivity of the firms has a positive...

El objetivo de este artículo es avanzar en una más precisa desagregación y cuantificación de los factores que operan como motivadores de la inversión extranjera directa (IED) recibida por los países del Mercosur y, específicamente, determinar la importancia relativa del proceso de...