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Measuring the effects of working-land conservation programs on adoption of soil-erosion reducing practices and permanent vegetative cover
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We use Maryland farm-level data to study the overall effect of voluntary conservation programs on permanent vegetative cover and the level of adoption of three soil-erosion reducing practices. In order to control for ...
The economics of inequality, poverty, and health: life after deaton's report
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
The debate on the relationship between income, income inequality, and
health of the last two decades has been based almost entirely on empirical
considerations. The ideas prompting the debate are based on the ...
Fiscal policy and national saving in Mexico, 1980-2006
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
This paper uses structural vector autoregressions (SVAR) to characterize the dynamic impact of fiscal policy on national saving. SVAR´s have extensively been used to characterize the impact of monetary policy on the economy ...
Incentives for transmission investment in the PJM electricity market: FTRs or regulation (or both?)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
This paper presents an application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the area of the US electric system known as PJM. The applied mechanism combines the merchant and ...
El voto de los mexicanos en el extranjero: historia de una ciudadanía negada
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2002)
Reseña de Del estado gerencial al estado cívico, de Omar Guerrero
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2001)
Deposit insurance, bank competition and risk taking
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
We analyse risk-taking behaviour of banks in the context of a model based
on spatial competition. Banks mobilise deposits by offering deposit rates.
We show that when the market concentration is low, banks invest in ...
Economy and environmental problems in the Mexican coastal states
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2006)
A canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) for environmental and economic variables was performed for 17 Mexican coastal states. The ordination method allowed us to identify three groups, namely hydroelectric energy generation ...
Reseña de Instituciones democráticas y conflictos políticos en Costa Rica, de Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq; El proceso electoral y el poder ejecutivo en Costa Rica: 1808-1998, de Clotilde María Obregón Quesada
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2002)
Mexico: the security challenge
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2006)
The paper describes the evolution of the security problem in Mexico since
the 1980s. It considers security in its many dimensions: from personal to
hemispheric and collective. The paper also analyzes the way in which ...