This article examines the two reports on the Telecommunication sector in Mexico. The first study is the OCDE report, while the second was written by Hausman and Ros and criticizes the former one. Comments are only technical and are made with academic purposes. Both studies construct...

In this essay it is argued that mainstream economics is not a monolithic block but instead it is composed by an orthodox nucleus, where neoclassical thinking prevails, and a set of approaches on the edge that share with the orthodoxy their interest for formal modeling (mathematical,...

It has been widely believed that Mexico’s rapid economic growth during the 1934-1956 period was only possible through an expansionary economic policy financed by inflationary means. Hence its contrast with the Stabilizing Development policy of the 1960’s, considered the golden age of rapid...

Human development, understood as a long-term synergism between technological, physiological and cultural improvements, is a decisive, long-term factor of economic growth. However, it is characterized by intergenerational traps that slow down economic growth. This characterization is useful to...

We determine the extent of comovement in employment over the business cycle among the regions of Mexico by analyzing the covariance of the disturbances in regional cycles during the period July 1997-October 2009. Employment refers to the number of workers with permanent contracts affiliated to...

Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico’s economic growth has been modest at best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude that the relation between openness and growth is not a...

This paper analyses and explains the trends of income distribution in Mexico over the last forty years. Besides making a systematic quantification of this phenomenon, the main hypothesis is that the observed trend towards a lower concentration of income during the sixties and seventies in Mexico...

Is liberalization in developing countries good for growth even if it leads to crises? The answer is a clear yes. But then, how can we explain the less-than-stellar growth performance of Mexico, a prominent liberalizer and member of NAFTA? In this paper we address these questions by analyzing the...

This work looks to improve the regional databases. We derive estimates of the state gross domestic product for every year among 1940-1992. The generated estimates were built with data published by INEGI. The generated series this way are derived using the estimated sensibility by a regression...

This paper analyzes the competitiveness of the automobile industry in Mexico considering three economic regions, the innovative characteristics of leading sectors, and the degree of clustering observed in the region. Substantial differences between the three regions and their states are found,...