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Does the commodities boom support the export led growth hypothesis?: evidence from Latin American countries
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-10-20)
Commodity prices are characterized by boom and bust cycles. In this article, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity ...
Race and marriage in the labor market: a discrimination correspondence study in a developing country
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial ...
Why did wage inequality decrease in Mexico after NAFTA?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Contrary to what happened before NAFTA, wage inequality in Mexico decreased after 1994. This paper investigates the forces behind the post-NAFTA decrease in wage inequality. Using a quantile decomposition, I show that the ...
Coordination incentives for information acquisition with a finite set of players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
We consider a class of two-player quadratic games under incomplete
information to study the relation between exogenous coordination motives
and strategic interactions in information acquisition. The players make
decisions ...
Combate a la informalidad: ¿más monitoreo fiscal o menos monopolios?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Some authors argue that the informal sector is one of the causes of underdevelopment; some others that it is only a symptom. The first group recommends an increase in tax enforcement in order to reduce the sector; the ...
How relevant has been the learning-by-doing for Brazilian sugarcane ethanol production?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper examines the role of several factors in reducing the production costs of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, including learning-by-doing (LBD), economies of scale, rising factor prices, market competitiveness, and ...
Optimal gasoline tax in developing, oil-producing countries: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper uses the methodology of Parry and Small (2005) to estimate the optimal gasoline tax for a less-developed, oil-producing country. The relevance of the estimation relies on the differences between less-developed ...
La deuda pública en México: propuesta de un sistema de alerta temprana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Este trabajo propone el diseño de un sistema de alerta temprana (SAT) para evaluar la ocurrencia de una crisis de deuda pública en México. Para su construcción se usó la teoría de detección de señales, basada en estadística ...
Transmission investment in the Peruvian electricity market: theory and applications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This research presents an application of the Hogan, Rosellón and Vogelsang
(2010) (HRV) mechanism —that promotes electricity transmission network
expansion— in the Peruvian electricity transmission system known as ...
Cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma with short-run players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper studies cooperative behavior in communities with a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The introduction of a short-run player in the population breaks ...