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Choosing one's identity
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper has two parts: In the first part, it presents a way of formalizing identity choice issues. In the main part, it looks at the incentive firms have to differentiate themselves by means of choosing meaningless, ...
A non-substitution theorem with heterogeneous labor
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
My first goal in this paper is to prove Proposition 1 under assumption which are far more general tan the Leontief-type assumtion usually associated to the proof of the non-substitution theorem. A second goa lis to prove ...
Did the Green Revolution concentrate incomes?: a quantitative study of research reports
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This analysis attempts to determine the usefulness of the existing literature for identifying defensible generalizations about the income effects of the new technology and for discerning the causes for the different ...
Market foreclosure and strategic aspects of vertical agreements
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper reviews the arguments about market foreclosure ─as an incentive for vertical agreements between upstream and downstream firms─ and its effects on welfare. We consider that downstream firms compete both in prices ...
Endogenous growth, money, taxes and foreign debt
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper uses a model of endogenous non-scale growth to examine the tradeoff between raising public foreign debt and sustaining growth. It is shown that a tight monetary policy accompanied by an increase in the tax rate ...
What do unions do?: measuring their impact in the Mexican cotton textile industry, 1900-1930
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
When looking at the consequences of the Mexican Revolution from the perspective of Orizaba textile milis, it is clear that its major impact was a substantial transformation in the relative power of workers and employers ...
Employment and child care strategies among Mexican women with young children
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper describes the child care strategies for urban Mexican women, and analyzes how these interact with employment decisions. Data on both the supply and use of public day care show that access to formal facilities ...
Justice and efficiency in economic relations: explaining collaboration and conflict in the firm and choice in ultimatum games
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
Individual preferences are sensitivic to particular economic interections. Complex psychological phenomena affec the meaning and ordering of their objects according to different institucional patterns and strategical ...
Impactos recíprocos entre salud y crecimiento en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
El objeto del presente escrito es un estudio de crecimiento y causalidad para México, en el que se investigan los contornos de la relación entre salud y crecimiento, y se buscan las dimensiones del marco temporal de la ...
Trading in names under moral hazard
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
Does the posibility of selling one's reputation (name) improve the average quality sold in an economy by reducing incentives to cheat towards the end of an interaction? lt is shown in the context of various economies with ...