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Pemex: ¿la no empresa de todos los mexicanos? por qué Pemex no es una verdadera empresa pública y por qué debe serlo
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Although there exist the conditions and reasons to let Pemex become a trully state owned, commercialy oriented, oil company, in reality Pemex does not behave as such, due to the ilimitations posed by its legal framework. ...
Environmental dependence of Mexican rural households: exploring the role of income, shocks, rules and roads
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This paper examines the impact that household and village level characteristics have on environmental dependence and participation in resource extraction decisions. Contrary to previous studies that have used case studies ...
Does the effect of pollution on infant mortality differ between developed and developing countries?: evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Most estimates of the relationship between pollution and mortality come from developed country data. However, these may not be externally valid to the developing world. Using data from Mexico, we find that an increase of ...
Does Malthus's principle of population still have a practical purpose nowadays?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
By introducing a delay differential equation into a population model this paper attempts to show that an update on Malthus’s principle of population requires using new mathematical analyses involving oscillations around a ...
Is the real effective exchange rate biased against the PPP hypothesis?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
We show that the use of the real effective exchange rate to test for purchasing power parity, as in Astorga (2012) and other studies, introduces a bias against finding evidence of PPP. The bias is illustrated using unit ...
Democracia y desarrollo para México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Desarrollamos un punto de vista que sintetiza las corrientes principales del pensamiento económico: neoclásica, keynesiana y marxista, así como las conclusiones de la teoría moderna del crecimiento económico, discursos que ...
Economic development and non-communicable chronic diseases
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This article outlines the economics of non communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), necessary for designing evidence-based health policies to reduce the prevalence of NCDs. The main risk factors of NCDs are manmade: abuse of ...
Oil and gas in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Mexico is a highly centralized federation. The states and municipalities are
highly dependent on federal transfers and so equally at risk to the country’s
fiscal dependence on oil. Although Mexico has become more truly ...
A cross-country causal panorama of human development and sustainability
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows that this theory has transcended the neoclassical paradigm and that market rationality does not govern the human development process. Instead human ...
Productivity shocks: discount rate and incentives
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
In this paper we analyze a repeated Principal Agent model, formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem. We approximate its Pareto Frontier by using a recently proposed Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary ...