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Are land values related to ambient air pollution levels?: hedonic evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
The average resident of Mexico City suffers unhealthy levels of air quality for the most part of the year. Nevertheless, the uneven distribution of firms and road traffic across the city, together with wind patterns and ...
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 ...
Poverty and commercialization of non-timber forest products
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In this paper I propose a methodology to analyze the potential impacts that
price increases can have on the income that extractors receive from nontimber
forest products extraction. The case study illustrates how one ...
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 ...
The effect of trade and foreign direct investment on inequality: do governance and macroeconomic stability matter?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2011)
Through dynamic panel data techniques and applying the estimated household income inequality data-set (Galbraith and Kum, 2003), this paper is aimed at exploring the effect of economic variables such as trade, foreign ...
Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-07-21)
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among ...
Machinery production networks in Latin America: a quantity and quality analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-11-13)
This paper investigates the effects that the increase in the importation of machinery parts and components and the changes in the supplier composition had in the trade of final products and parts and components inside Latin ...
Great expectations? evidence from Colombia’s exchange rate survey
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-07-21)
In this paper, we use the largest exchange rate survey in Colombia to test for the rational expectations hypothesis, the presence of a time-varying risk premium and the accuracy of exchange rate forecasts. Our findings ...
The rise and fall of Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-15)
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy ...
Fuentes de sobrecostos y distorsiones en las empresas eléctricas públicas de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2010)
En este artículo se describen y se tratan de cuantificar los efectos de algunos de los principales factores que han incidido en los costos de las empresas eléctricas públicas en México (pérdidas de energías, combustibles ...