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 …

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the … birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated … with economic complexity. This holds particularly for diversity among highly educated migrants and for countries at …

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …