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Regulated expansion of electricity transmission networks: the effects of fluctuating demand and wind generation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in the light of realistic demand patterns and fluctuating wind power. In particular, we are interested in ...
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 ...
Is the real effective exchange rate biased against the PPP hypothesis?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
We show that the use of the real effective exchange rate to test for purchasing power parity, as in Astorga (2012) and other studies, introduces a bias against finding evidence of PPP. The bias is illustrated using unit ...
Oil and gas in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Mexico is a highly centralized federation. The states and municipalities are
highly dependent on federal transfers and so equally at risk to the country’s
fiscal dependence on oil. Although Mexico has become more truly ...
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 ...
Economic analysis of theft reporting: the case of Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
Theft is the major component of crime rates in Mexico City and its reporting remains low and stable even when the budget assigned to federal public security reached an increase of 202.23% in 2006-2010. We develop a utility ...
Incertidumbre, crecimiento del producto, inflación y depreciación cambiaria en México: evidencia de modelos GARCH multivariados
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
En este artículo se realiza un análisis empírico de la relación de las medias y
varianzas condicionales de las tasas de depreciación cambiaria, inflación y
crecimiento del producto para México utilizando un modelo ...
Optimal transmission planning under the Mexican new electricity market
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
This paper addresses electricity transmission planning under the new industry and institutional structure of the Mexican electricity market, which has engaged in a deep reform process after decades of a state-owned ...
Ideology, swing voters, and taxation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Ideas about ethnicity, religion, and nationalism among others, which we label “ideology”, seem to affect the preferences of voters, political parties and finally, the equilibrium policy. In this paper we provide a ...
Divergences and convergences in human development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI)
components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrolment ratios,
using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111
countries. ...