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Agricultural Policy and Rural Poverty in Mexico
Scott, John - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2007
Agriculture and rural development policies in Mexico have experienced a profound reform process over the last two …, though average public expenditure in agricultural support and rural development in Mexico is modest by OECD standards, it is … aggravating, rather than reducing original, asset-based inequality in Mexico. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717806
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Principal-Agent Assignment: Implications for Incentives and Income Distribution in Tenancy Relationships
Dam, Kaniska - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2010
I analyze a problem of assigning heterogeneous agents (tenants) to heterogeneous principals (landlords), where partnerships are subject to moral hazard in effort choice. The agents differ in wealth endowment and the principals differ in land quality. When the liability of each agent is limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823217
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Compromises and Incentives
Di Giannatale Menegalli, Sonia; Curiel-Cabral, Itza T. Q. - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2013
We analyze a situation where a Principal does not necessarily have all the bargaining power while negotiating a contract with an Agent by studying a dynamic multi-objective moral hazard model with hidden action. We .nd that the structure of the optimal contracts change along the Pareto Frontier,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823261
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Productivity Shocks, Discount Rate and Incentives
Di Giannatale, Sonia; Curiel, Itza; Herrera, Juan; … - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2012
In this paper we analyze a repeated Principal Agent model, formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem. We approximate its Pareto Frontier by using a recently proposed Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm named RankMOEA. We focus on the effects of changes of productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823313
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Productivity Shocks, Discount Rate and Incentives
Di Giannatale, Sonia; Curiel, Itza; Herrera, Juan; … - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2012
In this paper we analyze a repeated Principal Agent model, formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem. We approximate its Pareto Frontier by using a recently proposed Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm named RankMOEA. We focus on the effects of changes of productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685977
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Coordination Incentives for Information Acquisition with a Finite Set of Players
Jiménez-Martínez, Antonio - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2011
We consider a class of two-player quadratic games under incomplete information to study the relation between exogenous coordination motives and strategic interactions in information acquisition. The players make decisions in two stages. They decide about information acquisition in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687832
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Principal-Agent Assignment: Implications for Incentives and Income Distribution in Tenancy Relationships
Dam, Kaniska - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2010
I analyze a problem of assigning heterogeneous agents (tenants) to heterogeneous principals (landlords), where partnerships are subject to moral hazard in effort choice. The agents differ in wealth endowment and the principals differ in land quality. When the liability of each agent is limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687844
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Quasi-Rents and Pricing Gas in Mexico
Rosellon, Juan; Brito, Dagobert L. - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2008
In 1997, the Comisión Reguladora de Energía of Mexico implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas … the Mexican government to use the netback rule based on the Texas price of gas to set the price natural gas in Mexico even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823180
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Política fiscal contracíclica en México durante la crisis reciente: Un análisis preliminar
Villagómez, Alejandro; Navarro, Luis - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2010
In this document we make a first assessment of the impact of the counter cyclical fiscal measures adopted by Mexico had … to the debate about the multipliers’ relevance. Mexico took these actions since the beginning of 2008. However, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823182
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Redistributive Constraints under High Inequality: The Case of Mexico
Scott, John - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2008
The paper presents a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of redistributive spending in Mexico. It reviews the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823187