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Potential currency areas in East Asia using United States, Japan or China as the monetary anchor
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This paper applies fuzzy clustering techniques to developed and emerging economies in East Asia, in order to arrive at an identification of potential subgroups of economies for monetary union. The statistical criteria ...
New directions of trade for the agri-food industry: a disaggregated approach for different income countries, 1963–2000
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-06-05)
The principal objective of the present study is to explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade has tended to ...
Introduction to Argentine exceptionalism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-01-05)
This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in the world at the ...
Environmental policies, mergers and welfare
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Unlike previous theoretical studies, we examine the welfare effects of a merger when participating firms are in a pollution-intensive sector. With passive environmental policy we show that profitable mergers reduce welfare; ...
Obstáculos al desarrollo del sistema financiero en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Este artículo revisa la evolución reciente de la banca en México. Con base en esta breve revisión elabora sobre los obstáculos que enfrenta el sistema financiero en México. En particular, se argumenta que hay dos de ellos ...
When change matters identifying score gains school determinants in Mexico: an intra-cohort value-added approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Educational quality in Mexico is a recurrent topic in the country’s public agenda. For this reason, better information about its determinants is required to guide policy makers. This discussion is particularly relevant ...
Niveles necesarios, costos y políticas para las reservas internacionales en América Latina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2011)
El artículo examina la dinámica de crecimiento de las reservas internacionales del conjunto de países latinoamericanos, en una perspectiva internacional comparada y respecto de variables tales como las importaciones, los ...
Fiscal decentralization in specific areas of government: a technical note
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This study makes a contribution in two basic areas. First, it sets up a model which combines efficiency as well as political economy aspects in explaining the degree of fiscal decentralization. It innovates in making ...
Environmental justice and toxic releases in urban Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we present empirical evidence that major toxic releasing facilities in Mexico pollute more in poorer or marginalized neighborhoods. We are the first to investigate “environmental (in)justice” behavior utilizing ...
Is the real effective exchange rate biased against the PPP hypothesis?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
We show that the use of the real effective exchange rate to test for purchasing power parity, as in Astorga (2012) and other studies, introduces a bias against finding evidence of PPP. The bias is illustrated using unit ...