Countries that rely oil private investors to find and exploit their mineral resources need reliable indicators of their investment attractiveness. This study explores the use of exploration expenditures for this purpose, ...

Economists define investment as the act of incurring immediate costs with the expectation of future returns. An investment project, as every asset has a value. For successfully investing in and managing these assets is ...

This paper explores the relationship between firms' investment and stock market liquidity. Using a panel of Latin American firms, I find evidence that a higher trading volume and a higher industry-adjusted trading volume ...

This research produced evidence about the contribution of investment and other sources to the growth process of Latin America during 1960-2002, and provided answers to the questions listed above unless from an historical ...

This paper analyzes the incentives for and welfare implications of collaboration among local governments in landside port accessibility investment. In particular, we consider two seaports with their respective captive ...

Chile se ha convertido en un importante inversor en América Latina principalmente por el incremento y la diversificación de sus inversiones desde el año 2000, presentando así, un alto nivel de participación en la región. En ...

This work proposes a linear disjunctive multiperiod optimization model for planning investments in energy sources considering two objectives, one economical (maximization of the net present value), and the other environmental ...