The metal-working and aluminium industries are widely known as basic industries since their supply feed into a number of of other economic activities producing final goods. Additionally, these industries are classified as heavy industries since they require a substantial capital investment per...

La posición estratégica de las empresas en el plano social y político se está degradando paulatinamente. Es urgente que las empresas adopten en esta materia una actitud de replanteamiento estratégico a partir de los datos reales que, hacen concebir una estrategia social y dentro de este...

Spanish Abstract: La transformación del sector cafetero se puede analizar bajo la óptica del cambio en los campos organizacionales que permite señalar y anticipar fallas que generen desestabilización. El presente artículo analiza la forma como se desarrolla el cambio en los campos...

The present document tries to explain the territorial dimension as factor of the economic development, considering the theoretical support of the new economic geography and incorporating a methodology of analysis from models of optimization. Complementing such a methodology, there get in the...

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the...

This paper analysis new hypothesis about the effects off regional integration on the MERCOSUR countries. From characterizing the initial patterns of specialization, it discusses the relevance of centre-periphery agglomeration hypothesis. It argues that the economic integration could increase the...

Este trabajo investiga y encuentra una influencia positiva de la inversión extranjera directa (ED) sobre la importancia del comercio intra-industrial (CII) en los sectores manufactureros españoles. Los sectores participados mayoritariamente presentan índices de CII superiores a la media y en...

Haciendo uso de modelos gravitacionales, se analizan los flujos agregados de comercio con el fin de identificar los efectos de China sobre el comercio de América Latina. Entre las principales conclusiones se encuentran las siguientes: i) El crecimiento del mercado chino no fue desaprovechado...

In this paper we used a model of New Economic Geography (NEG) to simulate the effects on industrial location in Uruguay for the implementation of alternative trade policy and infrastructure policy. The exercises show that a reduction of non-tariff barriers with Argentina reduces the location of...

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China’s impact on Latin America’s trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China´s growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in...