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The legacy of war dynamics on state capacity: evidence from 19th century Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
The literature on conflict is ambiguous about the impact of war on state capacity building. We zoom in on the war of independence in Mexico (1810–1821) to uncover that the effect of war on long-term state capacity depends ...
Machinery production networks in Latin America: a quantity and quality analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-11-13)
This paper investigates the effects that the increase in the importation of machinery parts and components and the changes in the supplier composition had in the trade of final products and parts and components inside Latin ...
Defence expenditure and economic growth in Latin American countries: evidence from linear and nonlinear causality tests
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-02-09)
Using SIPRI’s new consistent database on military expenditures, the paper examines the economic effects of such spending in the case of the 13 Latin American countries. Employing both linear and nonlinear tests, the nexus ...
Distributive and regional effects of monopoly power
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This paper estimates the distributive and regional effects of firms with market power in the case of Mexico. It presents evidence that the welfare losses due to the exercise of monopoly power are not only significant, but ...
Oil price shocks and macroeconomic performance in Nigeria
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of symmetric and asymmetric oil price and oil revenue shocks in Nigeria, using the vector autoregressive (VAR) estimation technique. The paper finds that both positive and ...
Why did wage inequality decrease in Mexico after NAFTA?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Contrary to what happened before NAFTA, wage inequality in Mexico decreased after 1994. This paper investigates the forces behind the post-NAFTA decrease in wage inequality. Using a quantile decomposition, I show that the ...
Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-11-11)
By means of a single-bounded, referendum format contingent valuation, this paper estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for improved air quality among residents of Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Findings from this paper ...
Competitividad y especialización en el Bajío mexicano: ¿acaso una región homogénea?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
Este trabajo avanza la estimación de la competitividad de la Región Bajío. La apreciación más general es que el Bajío como conjunto padece de poca competitividad, tanto por productividad laboral como por nivel de salarios ...
Trend-cycle decomposition for Peruvian GDP: application of an alternative method
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-06)
Perron and Wada (J Monet Econ 56:749–765, 2009) propose a new method of decomposition of the GDP in its trend and cycle components, which overcomes the identification problems of models of unobserved components (UC) and ...
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 ...