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US–Mexico border tourism and day trips: an aberration in globalization?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-26)
We examine the influence of two distinct regime changes in US border security on the number of persons traveling from the US into Mexico on day trips. In contrast to increases in overall US tourism to Mexico and rapidly ...
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 ...
Do industries pollute more in poorer neighborhoods?: evidence from toxic releasing plants in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This paper provides the first, direct evidence that poorer communities in Mexico are associated with higher toxics pollution releases. We utilize previously unused, self-reported, plant-level annual database (from 2004 to ...
Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to ...
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 ...
Pobreza, desigualdad y aprovechamiento de recursos naturales: aproximaciones metodológicas desde la economía
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This document describes some of the methodologies used in economics to analyze the relationship between use of natural resources, poverty and inequality. Data from a representative sample of rural households from the ...
Product competition and R&D investment under spillovers within full or partial collusion games
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-29)
The paper investigates firms’ behavior and outcomes (levels of cost-reducing R&D, output, profit and welfare in equilibrium) in a differentiated duopoly with process innovation. One of the important features in this paper ...
A robust Bayesian dynamic linear model for Latin-American economic time series: ‘‘the Mexico and Puerto Rico cases’’
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-07-28)
The traditional time series methodology requires at least a preliminary transformation of the data to get stationarity. On the other hand, robust Bayesian dynamic models (RBDMs) do not assume a regular pattern or stability ...
Innovación, competitividad y rentabilidad en los sectores de la economía mexicana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Division de Economía, 2015)
After a brief review of contemporary Mexican policy on science and technology we locate innovation experiences of firms in the context of innovation systems and market failures. Given the purpose of competitiveness as ...