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A natural experiment on US clean water act monitoring and compliance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we utilize the random treatment of reduction of complete stoppage of ambient water quality monitoring, to show that major polluters increase their pollution discharges relative to effluent limits in the ...
Trade liberalization and informality in Argentina: exploring the adjustment mechanisms
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-12-04)
This paper studies the link between trade reforms and labor informality in Argentina using a long time series spanning the 1980–2001 period. We explore cross-section mechanisms, that operate at the industry level, and ...
La nueva política de innovación y competitividad: sectores, entidades y empresas líderes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
En este trabajo se analiza la iniciativa por parte del Conacyt (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) de formular una nueva política de innovación para apuntalar la competitividad de las empresas mexicanas. Con el ...
Are land values related to ambient air pollution levels?: hedonic evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
The average resident of Mexico City suffers unhealthy levels of air quality for the most part of the year. Nevertheless, the uneven distribution of firms and road traffic across the city, together with wind patterns and ...
Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-11)
A model of belief influence in large social networks
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
This paper develops a model of evolution of beliefs through communication in an exogenous social network. We
assume that the agents are Bayesian updaters and that the network enables them to listen to the opinion of ...
Real exchange rate and manufacturing growth in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-07)
The manufacturing sectors in Latin America have been more affected by the currency over/undervaluation than their counterpart in industrialized economies. From a panel data set covering 39 countries and 22 manufacturing ...
Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-10)
Job search, social interactions and labor market performance of low-skilled immigrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In the last two decades, economists have recognized that immigrants make
extensive use of their immigrant networks when deciding to migrate and
during their stay in the host country. A way in which immigrants utilize ...
Optimal gasoline tax in developing, oil-producing countries: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper uses the methodology of Parry and Small (2005) to estimate the optimal gasoline tax for a less-developed, oil-producing country. The relevance of the estimation relies on the differences between less-developed ...