Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment …

One of the most cherished propositions in economics is that market competition by and large raises consumer welfare …. But whether political competition has similarly virtuous consequences is far less discussed. This paper formulates a model … to explain why political competition may enhance economic performance and uses the United States as a testing ground for …

1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the …

shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …

The Argentine economy was transformed in the late nineteenth century by the mass migration of millions of Europeans … on the scale and structure of the Argentine economy and tries to resolve various competing hypotheses. The paper presents …

lead to changes in GDP growth that may be as large as three times these sectors' share in the economy. We find that trend …

that can help countries capitalize on the opportunities afforded by an increasingly globalized post-industrial economy …