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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 ...
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. ...
Inflation targeting and term premia estimates for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-11)
Inflation targeting has been widely adopted in Latin America. In this paper, we show evidence consistent with major beneficial effects from so doing, with falling term premia and anchored policy rate expectations. To do ...
Implicit redistribution within Argentina’s social security system: a micro-simulation exercise
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-03-22)
The intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using household surveys, the lifetime flows of labor income, contributions and retirement benefits are simulated. ...
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 ...
Measuring dependence in financial crisis: a copula approach for Mexico and Brazil
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This paper studies the dependence in Mexican and Brazilian financial markets trough a method that has proved to obtain better results —along with the characterization of non-linearity and asymptotic dependence— than the ...
Taxes, transfers and the distribution of employment in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
The informal sector accounts for a substantial fraction of employed
population in Mexico and other Latin American countries. In this paper we
study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size ...