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Propuesta de una pensión universal proporcional en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
La cobertura de pensiones contributivas en México es baja y la alta movilidad entre el mercado laboral formal e informal conduce a bajas densidades de cotización que no garantizan acceder a una pensión mínima. El Estado ...
Race and marriage in the labor market: a discrimination correspondence study in a developing country
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial ...
How relevant has been the learning-by-doing for Brazilian sugarcane ethanol production?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper examines the role of several factors in reducing the production costs of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, including learning-by-doing (LBD), economies of scale, rising factor prices, market competitiveness, and ...
Optimal gasoline tax in developing, oil-producing countries: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper uses the methodology of Parry and Small (2005) to estimate the optimal gasoline tax for a less-developed, oil-producing country. The relevance of the estimation relies on the differences between less-developed ...
Impacto macroeconómico de la reforma de pensiones en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
En este trabajo se estima el impacto macroeconómico de la reforma mexicana a las pensiones del IMSS en 1997, que sustituyó un sistema de reparto por uno de contribución definida, capitalización total y cuentas individuales. ...
Economic analysis of theft reporting: the case of Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
Theft is the major component of crime rates in Mexico City and its reporting remains low and stable even when the budget assigned to federal public security reached an increase of 202.23% in 2006-2010. We develop a utility ...
Determinantes de la concentración industrial en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper studies the factors that influence industrial concentration and the form in which such influence is affected by the introduction of free trade. The analysis is done contrasting the predictions of the International ...
The real exchange rate, regime changes and volatility shifts
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
We make use of a data set that is both long span and high frequency to test for purchasing power parity while allowing for a structural shift in the volatility of the Mexico-US bilateral real exchange rate. The Kim, Leybourne ...
Cooperation among strangers in the presence of defectors: an experimental study
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
Does the rotten apple spoils his companions? This is the question we
analyze in the context of a repeated population game with behavioral types.
Our experimental results show that the inclusion of a non-cooperative
player ...
On distributive effects of optimal regulation for power grid expansion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been explicitly studied in the literature. More specifically, the parameters that a regulator might use to achieve ...