lenders, which may make lending altogether unprofitable. Second, banks can have an incentive to offer a debt contract and … additional equity contracts to intermediate debtors, which is in turn dominated by a simple debt contract, only attractive for … seek to avoid the contract with the highest chance of delivery: that contract attracts all bad entrepreneurs. …

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …

Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …

government might be tempted to devalue. In Mexico it would also appear that the costs and benefits of maintaining the regime were …

We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide … is developed to study the Mexican social program Progresa (called now Oportunidades) in which a randomized experiment has …

the period of trade policy reforms between 1985 and 1989 when Mexico experiences both an important inflow of foreign …

investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico -- firms' wage reports to …

This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth … formation of adequate social conditions for innovation (the social filter), and spillovers for 31 Mexican states and the Mexico …

very detailed Mexican data for 1994-2004, a period of liberalization in US trade policy vis a vis Mexico, mandated by the …