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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration ...
Problemas de financiamiento en gobiernos locales: ¿cuál es el papel de la banca de desarrollo?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
En este estudio se muestra que el financiamiento para las localidades es muy heterogéneo. Por un lado, las localidades importantes, por su tamaño y por su naturaleza en el espectro socioeconómico, enfrentan los problemas ...
The hydrocarbon sector in Mexico: from the abundance to the uncertain future
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
Oil in Mexico has been the cornerstone on which the Mexican State has built upon since its nationalization. It has been the main federal income source, it has supported industrial development and has allowed the State to ...
Public debt, fiscal solvency and macroeconomic uncertainty in Latin America: the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2009)
The ratios of public debt as a share of GDP of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico were 12 percentage points higher on average during the period 1996-2005 than in the period 1990-1995. Costa Rica’s debt ratio remained stable but ...
Incentives for supply adequacy in electricity markets: an application to the Mexican power sector
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2009)
This paper studies resource adequacy, i.e. the market design dilemma of ensuring enough generation capacity in the long run. International experiences have shown that it is difficult that the market alone provides incentives ...
Alternative effects of antidumping policy: should Mexican authorities be worried?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2005)
Administered protection is not the only outcome of antidumping measures. This paper suggests a basic model of repeated interaction between a domestic and a foreign firm. Competing in prices in the importing market, antidumping ...
Median-unbiased estimation in panel data: methodology and applications to the GDP convergence and purchasing power parity hypotheses
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
This paper reviews the literature on the econometrics of median-unbiased estimation in panel data and provides methodological guidelines for its implementation. The method is then used to evaluate the well known GDP ...
Testing for information asymmetries in voluntary conservation contracts
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
We use data from a Maryland farm survey and a multivariate switching regression model with endogenous switching to investigate the effects of information asymmetries on conservation cost sharing contracts. Our estimations ...
Índice de peligro de incendios forestales de largo plazo
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
El documento describe un índice de peligro de incendios forestales de largo plazo. El índice se basa en el principio de que los incendios forestales siguen un comportamiento crítico auto-organizado. Este comportamiento ...
Inflation and output dynamics with state-dependent nominal rigidities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
The paper shows that in a natural extension of Calvo pricing that endogenizes the degree of nominal rigidities, the pricing scheme delivers a generalized New Keynesian Phillips (NKPC). In the NKPC of the model, current ...