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Seguro popular: incidence analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of the distribution at the household level of benefits from the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud (SPSS), or Seguro Popular, in its initial phase of operations. This health ...
Efficient access pricing and endogenous market structure
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We analyse a (differentiated good) industry where an incumbent firm owns
a network good (essential input) and faces potential competition in the
(downstream) retail market. Unlike the traditional approach, we consider ...
Measuring the effects of working-land conservation programs on adoption of soil-erosion reducing practices and permanent vegetative cover
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We use Maryland farm-level data to study the overall effect of voluntary conservation programs on permanent vegetative cover and the level of adoption of three soil-erosion reducing practices. In order to control for ...
Federal against local governments: political accountability under asymmetric information
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We model a situation in which the voters are or not fooled by the local
or/and the federal government, and their capability of accounting the
behavior of the governments, when they are not fully informed about which
are ...
Mercados formal e informal de crédito en México: un estudio de caso
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
La convivencia de sectores formales e informales de oferta en un mercado crediticio, genera la necesidad de analizar cómo los mismos interactúan entre sí para satisfacer la demanda de servicios financieros por parte de los ...
Rating sub - national government debt in LDCs: does size matter?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
In this paper we study the determinants of both the decision to be rated and the ratings for sub-national governments in a prominent LDC, Mexico. One of the main findings is that entity size does matter; as a matter of ...
Bequest motive for conservation in forest production communities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
The study confirms the existence of a bequest motive, or intergenerational value, closely related to the conservation of forests in poor rural communities with communal forests under logging. A survey with contingent ...
Larger menus and entrepreneurial appetite: an empirical investigation of organization choice in Mexico, 1886-1910
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
Do countries need a large menu of organizational forms? Does the flexibility
of a larger organizational menu provide advantages for businesses? This
paper explores these questions by studying the choice of organizational ...
Índice de peligro de incendios forestales de largo plazo
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
El documento describe un índice de peligro de incendios forestales de largo plazo. El índice se basa en el principio de que los incendios forestales siguen un comportamiento crítico auto-organizado. Este comportamiento ...
The corporate governance of the Mexican banking system: a historical perspective: 1994-2000
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
This paper elaborates on the historical transformations of the corporate governance of the Mexican banking system from the thirties to the consequences of NAFTA in this industry. The paper describes the configuration of ...