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Incentives for supply adequacy in electricity markets: an application to the Mexican power sector
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
This paper studies the electricity market design, long run problem of ensuring enough generation capacity to meet future demand (resource adequacy). Reform processes worldwide have shown that it is difficult that the market ...
Average effective tax rates in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2005)
The paper estimates average effective tax rates on consumption, labor and capital income for Mexico, using the method of Mendoza et al. (1994) and related extensions, including two novel refinements. On average, it is found ...
El cambio en la productividad manufacturera en México: 1994-1999: el enfoque de los índices de Malmquist en industrias, estados y regiones
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
La presente investigación analiza los cambios en productividad que experimentó la industria manufacturera mexicana en el periodo 1994-1999, hecho clave en el proceso de apertura comercial del país. Para ello se utilizó la ...
The intergenerational impact of health on economic growth
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
Nutrition and health interact with long-term economic growth through an intergenerational process of human capital accumulation characterized by market failures. Early child development is a pivotal link in human capital ...
Bonds, foreign creditors, and the costs of the Mexican Revolution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
In this paper we study the impact that the Mexican Revolution had on Mexico’s economy by looking at the effects of political instability on the public finances and the relationship of the government and its foreign creditors. ...
Do private benefits prevent the efficient transfer of control in a firm?: a mechanism design approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
In this paper we apply the mechanism design technique to study the feasibility to achieve an efficient transfer of control in a firm where the controller enjoys private benefits and the value of the firm under each potential ...
R&D. Implementation and stagnation: a shumpeterian theory of convergence clubs
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
We construct a multi-country Schumpeterian growth model in which technological change can occur either through research and development or through implementation. R&D requires a threshold level of human capital that depends ...
Conditional public transfer and living arrangements in rural Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
This paper sheds light on the impact that conditional public cash transfers exert on living arrangement decisions by analyzing the effect of PROGRESA on the composition of beneficiary households. We use data collected for ...
Determinants of the Venezuelan banking crisis of the mid-1990s: an event history analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2005)
This paper uses event history analysis to test the significance of several macro-economic and bank-specific variables in explaining bank failures during the Venezuelan banking crisis of the mid-1990s. Poor bank profitability, ...
Tecnología agrícola internacional: un estudio comparativo utilizando modelos panel no lineales
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2005)
The most common approach used in international comparisons of agricultural productivity and technological change is generally based on Cobb-Douglas production functions. Similarly, the technological level is usually modelled ...