Business creation is an important measure of real economic activity because it shows the dynamics with which new firms are born, create jobs, move their capital, innovate and compete with old firms. In this sense, this paper analyzes the impact of the lockdown policies implemented to stop the...

Foreign Direct Investment has been described as an important factor that contributes to economic growth being of particular importance in developing countries. In this sense, we assess how lockdown/ restriction policies may affect FDI inflows. For this, we exploit the exogenous variation coming...

Tax incentives are a common policy to attract investment and create formal employment in developing countries. However, scarce evidence is available that study the impact of such reforms. This paper estimates the effect of the Organic Law for Productive Development, Attraction of Investments,...

We exploit the exogenous variation that comes from the COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown in Ecuador. We estimate a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design using official administrative FDI data from January to May 2020. We observe an overall large decrease in FDI inflows. We assess...