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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 ...
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 ...
Incentives and competition in microfinance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop a model of competition among socially motivated microfinance instituions (MFIs), where the MFIs offer repayment-based incentive contracts to credit agents. The agents gather information regarding a borrower, and ...
Competition and bank risk taking in a differentiated oligopoly
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We re-examine the relationship between the degree of deposit market competition and bank
risk taking in a model where banks compete in differentiated deposit services. When banks
invest their deposits directly, as has ...
Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-15)
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic ...
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 ...
La política de innovación en el contexto de especialización competitiva de algunos estados de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
En este trabajo se analiza el impacto de distintos apoyos a la innovación brindados por Conacyt (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) en la competitividad de las actividades más importantes en cada estado. El análisis ...
What determines adult cognitive skills?: influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-13)
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, ...