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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765
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Maquiladoras and informality: A mixed blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280836
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Spotlight on Spatial Environmental Policy Spillovers : An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities
Hecker, Lutz Philip - 2018
Mexico. However, wastewater treatment levels also differ greatly among the 2,456 Mexican municipalities. We apply spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908670
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2019
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … significant distortive effects of the Mexican Drug War on domestic industrial development in Mexico and suggest that the Drug War …
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The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition : Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken - 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity Performance of Mexican Industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2021
It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316826
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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244024
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The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis : Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and wealth...
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