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State dependence of fiscal multipliers in Chile – an independent component approach to identification
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-01-25)
In studying the economic cycle dependency of fiscal multipliers in Chile, we implement an independent component analysis for structural shock identification within a non-linear vector autoregressive setting with generalized ...
The COVID-19 economic crisis in Mexico through the Lens of a financial conditions index
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-12-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic not only generated real shocks affecting economic activity severely, but also a broad uncertainty that unleashed an extreme shock to financial markets. In this paper, we focus on the financial dimension ...
Socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 in Mexico: a multisectoral approach and policy options
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-01-10)
The health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has caused a profound social and economic disruption in Mexico. Our purpose in this paper is to contribute to the knowledge about the economic impact of the pandemic in ...
Gender wage discrimination by distribution of income in Mexico, 2005-2020
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this end, a number of variables is selected to reflect workers' human capital, household circumstances and ...
The dynamics of social deprivation in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-06-04)
This paper aims to model the dynamics of social deprivation in Mexico using a Markovian approach. First, we establish a scenario where a list of items characterizing social deprivation evolves as a first-order Markov chain ...
From bad to worse: the economic impact of COVID-19 in developing countries. Evidence from Venezuela
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-10-18)
Policy responses to COVID-19 affected the dynamic of economic growth and labor markets worldwide, hitting economically harder on developing countries. These policies involved economic lockdowns that included the shutdown ...
Political cycles in Latin America: more evidence on the Brazilian economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-11-04)
This paper aims to shed additional light on the existence of opportunistic and partisan political-business cycles in the Brazilian economy over the 1996-2016 period. To that end, it relies on two different approaches: (I) ...
Does education increase risk aversion in households? Some evidence using artefactual experiments in Peru
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-09-20)
We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ ...
Latin American falls and rebounds since the COVID-19
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-10-04)
This paper proposes comprehensive measures of the Latin American business cycle that help to infer the expected deepness of recessions, and strength of expansions, as they unfold in real time. These measures are based on ...
Long-term effects of initial labor market conditions on young Mexicans
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-09-06)
In this paper, we analyze the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions on young Mexicans. We construct a synthetic panel from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment. The sample is grouped according ...