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Estimating the technical efficiency of Mexican states
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
In this paper we estimate the technical efficiency of Mexican states using several stochastic production frontier models. The empirical section uses panel data over the period 1988-2008. A distinctive feature of the paper ...
Natural resource dependence in rural Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
The main purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the effects of
household characteristics and of inequality at the village level on natural
resource extraction and dependence. To do so we use data from the ...
Productivity shocks: discount rate and incentives
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
In this paper we analyze a repeated Principal Agent model, formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem. We approximate its Pareto Frontier by using a recently proposed Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary ...
An assignment model of monitored finance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop an incentive contracting model of firm formation. Entrepreneurs of private equity firms who differ in net worth are required to borrow from institutional investors in order to finance start up projects. Investors, ...
The Argentina paradox: microexplanations and macropuzzles
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues ...
Effect of tariff liberalization on Mexico's income distribution in the presence of migration
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper studies how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
affected income distribution within Mexico given internal migration. Trade
liberalization should theoretically increase the income of low-skilled ...
The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on cancer mortality in Mexico, 2003–2013
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-10-17)
I assess the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortality in Mexico during the period 2003–2013, by investigating whether there were larger declines in the age-standardized mortality rate of cancer sites ...
Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-08-20)
Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people ...
Trivariate probit with double sample selection: theory and application
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We develop the trivariate probit model in which the sample incidentally truncates twice —i.e. in the first and in the second equations—, which is not solved in the literature. The model is analogue to the so called Bivariate ...
Especializaciones reveladas y ventajas competitivas en el Bajío mexicano
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This exercise approaches the economic competitiveness for the Bajío región in Mexico taking into account production at the level of activities and their degree of integration into clusters. The measure is centred in 82 ...