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International organizations as normative agenda setters: social influence and reputation in the effects of the international human rights regime
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2015)
This document deals with the question of how International Organizations (IOs) influence states. Analyzing original quantitative data from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, we explore the role of IOs in the ...
Impact of U.S. biofuel policy in the presence of drastic climate conditions
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We analyze the impact of total and partial waivers of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) under uncertain changes in climate conditions that affects crop yields distributions. The main model results show that reducing ...
Estimating the technical efficiency of Mexican states
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
In this paper we estimate the technical efficiency of Mexican states using several stochastic production frontier models. The empirical section uses panel data over the period 1988-2008. A distinctive feature of the paper ...
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 ...
An economic analysis of transportation fuel policies in Brazil
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
Brazil uses taxes, subsidies, and blending mandates as policy instruments to manage its transportation fuel markets. Despite all the market stabilization efforts, the fuels sector has been very dynamic in recent years. In ...
Is crime in Mexico a disamenity?: evidence from a hedonic valuation approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Since Roback (1982)’s seminal work, the literature has evaluated the role of the amenities to equilibrate the regional differentials of nominal wages and prices. While these studies generally find evidence for traditional ...
Stochastic frontiers and technical efficiency of local public expenditure in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
This work analyses the effect of the institutional design of the public spending on the technical efficiency. The model controls the technical efficiency with two institutional variables for earmarked and autonomous revenues ...