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Memoria ID-0267. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2014-2015.

In recent discussions concerning the definition of argument, it has been maintained that the word ‘argument’ exhibits the process-product ambiguity, or (as in Goddu forthcoming) an act/object ambi-guity. Drawing on literature on lexical ambiguity we argue that ‘argument’ is not ambiguous. The term ‘argument’ refers to an object, not to a speech act. We also examine some of the important implications of our argument by considering the question: what sort of abstract objects are arguments?

Considering the significant positive impact of foreign direct investments on the developing economies, we have tried in this paper to identify the main factors influencing one way or another the flows and stocks of FDI. Our sample includes four host countries with a similar past from Eastern Europe and five home countries with an important contribution to the FDI stocks within the host countries. After choosing the main potential impact factors based on previous theoretical and empirical evidence, we have performed a panel data analysis based on a gravitational approach.