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An Economic Perspective on Mexico's Nascent Deregulation of Retail Petroleum Markets
Davis, Lucas W. - 2018
Retail petroleum markets in Mexico are on the cusp of a historic deregulation. For decades, all 11,000 gasoline … regulated retail prices. This industry structure is changing, however, as part of Mexico's broader energy reforms aimed at … gasoline and diesel. In this paper, we provide an economic perspective on Mexico's nascent deregulation. Although in many ways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453169
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457491
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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina
Goldberg, Linda - 2000
studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with … with high levels of impaired assets (Mexico) have more stagnant loan growth and weak responsiveness to market signals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471047
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Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows
Broner, Fernando - 2020
We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481075
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Endogenous Sudden Stops in a Business Cycle Model with Collateral Constraints : A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2006
The current account reversals, large recessions, and price collapses that define Sudden Stops contradict the predictions of a large class of models in which the current account is a vehicle for consumption smoothing and investment financing. This paper shows that the quantitative predictions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466098
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Can Subsidiaries of Foreign Banks Contribute to the Stability of the Forex Market in Emerging Economies? A Look at Some Evidence from the Mexican...
Reynoso, Alejandro - 2002
. The data on the compliance of domestic and foreign banks with the dollar reserve requirements in Mexico is used to try to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469851
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Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Flows and Crisis Prevention
Edwards, Sebastian - 2001
In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470189
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Credit, Prices, and Crashes : Business Cycles with a Sudden Stop
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2001
The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of nontradable goods relative to tradables. This paper shows that these Sudden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470386
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From Carry Trades to Trade Credit : Financial Intermediation by Non-Financial Corporations
Hardy, Bryan; Saffie, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use unique firm-level data from Mexico to document that non-financial corporations engage in carry trades by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250200
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From Beijing to Bentonville : Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
Head, Keith - 2010
Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462369