After the regulatory reform experienced in the Mexican gas sector, three areas with market power remained. Production is a legal monopoly of Pemex. Transportation and distribution are natural monopolies. Distributor’s gas ...

Latin American Economic Review (LAER) is an international, refereed open-access journal dedicated to publishing in English original academic research on economics, with rigorous theoretical and methodological standards. ...

This paper addresses the effect of rules of origin regulations on the use of domestic factors of production in the country of origin. In the case of a firm that is a perfect competitor in the final product market, these ...

This paper studies certain aspects of rules of origin. Rules of origin are nothing but regulations used to identify the country of origin of the goods of international trade. Every country requires rules of origin for ...

El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar las relaciones comerciales y de inversión de México con la Comunidad Europea (CE) para el sector manufacturero (exceptuando los productos cubiertos en el Acuerdo Multifibras), ...

We develop in this paper a model where the government is seeking to cboose an optimal rule of origin which maximizes the labor income (which measures social welfare) and solves the conflict in the productive chain by: a) ...

This paper provides a new mechanism on how to overcome transmission expansion in the specific European context. We test the Hogan-Rosellón-Vogelsang (2007) (HRV) incentive mechanism for different network topologies. The ...