The document evaluates the importance of the credit market on consumption in Mexico. A test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis indicates that consumers face liquidity constraints. Considering financing to the private non-banking sector by commercial banks as well as the spread between borrowing...

Recent work finds that countries with poorly developed legal systems are characterized by firms with high concentrations of owner ship and narrow capital markets. The causality of this relationship, how ever, has not been formalized. This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the...

It is evident that there exists a high degree of economic interdependence betweenMexico and the United States at the aggregate level. It is not clear, however, that this relationship holds for individual economic sectors. In this document we investigate the existence of common movements, at...