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- Contrafactual: participación de la Zona Franca en la actividad económica costarricenseWe do a computation about the impact of the Free Zone in Costa Rica. We sum the transactions amount due to firms linked to this regime conditioning on the differences for buys and sells between local firms and multinationals (MNCs). Also, we compute and add indirect effects. We use the evidence from Alfaro-Ureña, Manelici y Vásquez (2019) about productivity improvements of local suppliers to MNCs and the evidence from Huertas-Morales, Loaiza-Marín y Ortiz-Coto (2021) about higher linkages of MNCs relative to local firms. This information allow us to compute the counterfactual about how transaction amounts would diminished in Costa Rica without the firms producing in the Free Zone. We compare our results with the “Balance de Zonas Francas” published by Procomer. In general, that Balance states that the importance of the Free Zone in Costa Rica is 6.7% of GDP in 2016, while our proposed computation measures 8.18% of GDP for the same year.