Una evaluación de las políticas promocionales de inversión extranjera directa en América Latina

Abstract

In the past two decades, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has gained importance in Latin Americaneconomies. This is because, as this article intends to demonstrate, increasingly sounder macro-economic stabilityand the fact that the region's countries have opened and flexibilized their regulatory frameworks. In this manner,and through a model of data from panels, this article finds that the measures implemented in Latin America toattract FDI have enabled a larger inflow of resources. On another front, the model also ascertains the importanceof other factors such as macroeconomic stability and the size of the market, which also explain a good percentageof these flows.

Keywords

• Inversión Extranjera Directa
• estabilidad macroeconómica
• marco regulatorio
• políticas promocionales