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El petróleo y la economía mexicana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
In this paper, we analyze the petroleum industry and its impact on the Mexican economy. We find that the higher the oil price level, the higher the proportion of the Mexican petroleum income with respect to the total ...
Economic and political implications of new developments in thin film solar technology
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
Recent developments suggtst that solar panels that are expected to be in production by early 2002 will be able to compete with gas priced at $2.50 to $3.50 in the southern United States. If the cost of solar power continues ...
On the agency insurers' role in competition among insurance companies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper studies the effects on insurance premiums and consumer welfare when commissions to insurance agencies exist and are used strategically to sell insurance policies. The opportunistic behavior of agency insurers ...
Technological innovation, implementation and stagnation: convergence clubs in the open world economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We construct a multi-country Schumpeterian growth model in which technological change can occur either through research and development or through implementation. R&D requires a threshold level of human capital that depends ...
Incentivos para la expansión de la red de transmisión eléctrica en México mediante la regulación de precios
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We develop a model to regulate the structure of transmission tariffs that seeks to reconcile the opposing long run and short run objectives of an electricity transmission company. In the short run, the main problems are ...
Educational attainment of indigenous children in México: a problem of family resources or language barriers
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper analyzes the educational attainment of indigenous children in Mexico. Using large household data sets from rural communities where a majority of indigenous people live in Mexico, we analyze the potential explanatory ...
Who benefits from social spending in Mexico?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
El trabajo presenta un análisis de incidencia de beneficios del gasto social en México, utilizando medidas comunes de progresividad absoluta y relativa, e introduciendo nuevas medidas basadas en normas de igualdad de ...
Life expectancy conditions the economic growth distribution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that when the distribution of economic growth is classified by life expectancy, significant and changing structural features emerge. The period 1960-1980 shows a non-linear dependence of average growth on life ...
The cross-country distribution of life expectancy is twin-peaked
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that the cross-country distribution of life expectancy for the period 1960-1997 is an evolving twin-peaked distribution with a diminishing, dynamically invariant lower peak. This may imply the presence of a ...
The political economy of protectionism: the evolution of labor productivity, international competitiveness, and tariffs in the Mexican textile industry, 1900-1950
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper compares prices, costs, and productivity levels c.1911 of a Mexican textile mil with those of mills in the United States and Great Britain and studies the evolution of textile tariff protection. Surprisingly by ...