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Collective remittance and the state: the 3X1 program in Mexican municipalities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2008)
The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants is a matching fund scheme that seeks to direct the money sent by hometown associations abroad (collective remittances) to productive uses. The federal, state and municipal governments ...
Learning, political regimes and the liberalization of trade
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2009)
We relate the probability of opening to trade with countries’ propensity to learn from other countries in the same region. We argue that countries have different motivations to learn, depending on how responsive and ...
Do crises cause reform?: a new approach to the conventional wisdom
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2006)
Two claims pervade the literature on the political economy of market
reforms: that economic crises cause reforms; and that crises matter
because they bring into question the validity of the economic model held to
be ...
The diffusion of regulatory reforms in pension systems: Latin America in comparative perspective
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2006)
This paper analizes the privatization of pension systems in Latin America and Developer countries. It uses the results developed by Brooks (2005) showing how the number of previous adoptions of this policy is conclusive ...
Reflexiones sobre el debate de la difusión de políticas
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2008)
Este artículo analiza las novedades en el estudio de la difusión internacional de las políticas. Revisamos críticamente las contribuciones más recientes sobre el tema, procurando identificar las novedades sustantivas y ...
Supply or demand? Politics and the 3X1 program for migrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Collective remittances are the money flows sent by hometown associations (HTAs) to their communities of origin. In Mexico, the 3x1 Program for Migrants matches by three the amounts that HTAs send back to their localities ...