The AK endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply and useful government expenditures of Turnovsky (2000) is specially calibrated for the Mexican economy in order to perform a series of fiscal reform exercises. Available taxes include lump-sum, consumption and factor income taxes. For all...

This paper presents a small open economy model to study the role of real interest rate shocks in Mexico. The interest rate is divided in two terms: an international rate and a country risk premia. Simulations show that the model with endogenous risk premia is able to explain several stylized...