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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 ...
Do consumers really prefer formal credit to informal credit?: evidence from a pseudo-experimental design in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
The development of economic institutions characterizes economic growth and promotes efficiency. For example, formal credit institutions operate in the credit market in a more efficient way than informal money lenders because ...
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 ...
Deforestación en México: un análisis preliminar
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
The present work includes a literature review of deforestation drivers both at the international level and specific to Mexico as well as a preliminary econometric analysis. The main objective is contribute to the understanding ...
El papel de la tasa de interés real en el ciclo económico de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper presents a small open economy model to study the role of interest rate shocks in an emerging economy like Mexico. The interest rate is decomposed in two terms: an international rate and a country risk premia. ...
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 ...
Markets vs. government foreign direct investment and industrialization in Malaysia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2011)
This paper examines the changing role or fovernment and foreign firms in Malaysia’s industrialization process. Economists have held different views on the role of government in industrialization. Some believed that the ...
Evaluación de los resultados de la licitación del espectro radioeléctrico de la Cofetel y su impacto en el sector de servicios de telecomunicación móvil en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
During the auction of the Mexican Radio Spectrum that took place in 2010,
the central issues in the public opinion were about the potential fiscal
revenue and the possible damage to the State’s assets. None of the
postures ...
Stochastic frontiers and technical efficiency of local public expenditure in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
This work analyses the effect of the institutional design of the public spending on the technical efficiency. The model controls the technical efficiency with two institutional variables for earmarked and autonomous revenues ...