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Does trade imply convergence?: analyzing the effect of NAFTA on the local convergence in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of whether trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ecological inference with entropy econometrics: using the Mexican census as a benchmark
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Most regional empirical analyses are limited by the lack of data. Researchers have to use information that is structured in administrative or political regions which are not always economically meaningful. The non-availability ...
Regional economic analysis of internal migration in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper studies how internal migration responds to trade openness. We seek to answer the following questions: Has trade liberalization changed the internal-migration pattern? And second, what characteristics facilitate ...
Factors that influence women’s economic participation in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This paper analyses women’s economic participation (WEP) in Mexico. The hypothesis is that the regional disparities of women’s participation are based on education, industrialization, urbanization and other non-observed ...
Effect of tariff liberalization on Mexico's income distribution in the presence of migration
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper studies how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
affected income distribution within Mexico given internal migration. Trade
liberalization should theoretically increase the income of low-skilled ...
La medición de la competitividad en México: ventajas y desventajas de los indicadores
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
En México, diversos índices han surgido utilizando diferentes unidades de análisis, conceptos de competitividad y métodos de medición de la misma. En la literatura empírica que se enfoca al ámbito Mexicano tenemos diferentes ...
Especializaciones reveladas y ventajas competitivas en el Bajío mexicano
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This exercise approaches the economic competitiveness for the Bajío región in Mexico taking into account production at the level of activities and their degree of integration into clusters. The measure is centred in 82 ...