Based on the so-called bounds testing approach, the paper studies the long-run effect of capital flows and the real exchange rate on Mexico’s private investment from 1988 through 2008, presenting two main results. First, while capital inflows can potentially increase investment, in practice...

This work proposes an approach for estimating value at risk (VaR) of the Mexican stock exchange index (IPC) by using a combination of the autoregressive moving average models (ARMA); three different models of the arch family, one symmetric (GARCH) and two asymmetric (GJR-GARCH and EGARCH); and...

This paper evaluates the gains in longevity based on individuals’ willingness to pay, and measures the social values of these gains. We apply the Murphy and Topel (2003, 2006) model for Mexico for the first time, which allows us to estimate the value of a life year and the value of remaining...

This paper studies the dependence in Mexican and Brazilian financial markets through a method that has proved to obtain better results —along with the characterization of non-linearity and asymptotic dependence— than the use of simple correlation analysis: the copula approach. Using weekly...

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 also larger, in relative terms, for the poor. Moreover, the losses are...

This study makes a contribution in two basic areas. First, it sets up a model which combines efficiency as well as political economy aspects in explaining the degree of fiscal decentralization. It innovates in making explicit the benefits from better informed politicians and policy makers (Von...

Educational quality in Mexico is a recurrent topic in the country’s public agenda. For this reason, better information about its determinants is required to guide policy makers. This discussion is particularly relevant within the context of the educational reform proposed by the federal...

We developed a model to analyze the short term relationship between mobile phone charges per rounded minute and per second, in a context where tariffs are freely determined. We assumed profit maximizing firms and an exponential distribution for mobile call duration. Among the results, we found...

This work analyzes the predictive ability of some cyclical indices for the turning points of the Mexican economy. The growth cycle approach adopted requires working with detrended series, and so several detrending methods were tried. A double Hodrick-Prescott filter application produced the best...

Mexico created Seguro Popular in 2002 with the goal of providing free or subsidized health insurance coverage to 47 million uninsured people by the year 2013. Hence, one unintended consequence of the program could be an increase in the size of the informal sector. The introduction of the Seguro...