This paper offers a vision of the future of trade in manufactured products between Mexico and the United States. This … proximity of Mexico and the United States, and also for the continuing wage gap between Mexico and the United States. The vision … liberalized Mexico. Based on the OECD trade patterns, an emerging Mexico will present U.S. export opportunities that are a …

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US … greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker size-management relationship compared to the US, particularly in the highly …

Mexico, a prominent liberalizer, failed to attain stellar gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s, and since … 2001 its GDP and exports have stagnated. In this paper we argue that the lack of spectacular growth in Mexico cannot be … extraordinary growth of exports and foreign domestic investment (FDI). The key to the Mexican puzzle lies in Mexico's response to …

In 1950 Mexico entered an economic takeoff and grew rapidly for more than 30 years. Growth stopped during the crises of … modest. We analyze the economic history of Mexico 1877-2010. We conclude that the growth 1950-1981 was driven by urbanization …, industrialization, and education and that Mexico would have grown even more rapidly if trade and investment had been liberalized sooner …

Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …

stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of its workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …

Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment … been lackluster, trailing that of many other developing nations. In this paper, I review arguments for why Mexico hasn …. These are factors internal to Mexico. One possible external factor is that the country has the bad luck of exporting goods …