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On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-10-28)
This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities ...
Do Mexicans care about air pollution?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-05-23)
Mexico has many major problems such as corruption, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, pollution, etc. Regarding pollution, politicians have established some programs trying to improve air quality in Mexico. But they do not ...
Fiscal decentralization in specific areas of government: a technical note
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This study makes a contribution in two basic areas. First, it sets up a model which combines efficiency as well as political economy aspects in explaining the degree of fiscal decentralization. It innovates in making ...
Market discipline: a review of the Mexican deposit market
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-15)
This paper studies the mechanisms of market discipline in the Mexican deposit market. It tests the hypothesis that low-quality banks pay higher interest rates on deposits, receive fewer deposits, and shift their deposit ...
Power system transformation towards renewables: an evaluation of regulatory approaches for network expansion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
We analyze various regulatory regimes for electricity transmission investment in the context of a transformation of the power system towards renewable energy. We study distinctive developments of the generation mix with ...
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 ...
Real exchange rate and foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ssme empirical results
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2012)
Despite the well acknowledged importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) and efforts of sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries at attracting it, the region remains the least destination for FDI globally. Of course, several ...
A cross-country causal panorama of human development and sustainability
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows that this theory has transcended the neoclassical paradigm and that market rationality does not govern the human development process. Instead human ...
Aglomeración espacial de establecimientos comerciales en un centro tradicional de negocios: un análisis basado en las funciones K
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2012)
Comparamos dos de las estadísticas espaciales más robustas que reporta la literatura contemporánea para analizar patrones locacionales de firmas: las funciones K-plana y K-en red. Estas funciones generan valores que, en ...
Removing cross-border capacity bottlenecks in the European natural gas market: a proposed merchant-regulatory mechanism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural-gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (2001) and Hogan et al., (2010), a ...