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The credit risk measures we develop in this paper are used to investigate macrofinancial linkages in the Mexican banking system. Domestic and external macro-financial variables are found to be closely associated with banking soundness. At the aggregate level, high external volatility and...
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This paper reviews the Mexican experience with the securitization of residential mortgages. It highlights the key legislative and institutional reforms leading to the development of primary and secondary mortgage markets and reports the main features and valuation practices of the RMBS markets....
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This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and …, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large share of Mexico's macroeconomic fluctuations after NAFTA. This partly reflects … greater trade integration-but also Mexico's ""Great Moderation,"" as the country escaped its former pattern of macro …
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differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting … price threshold bands as transactions costs, we find evidence that Mexico still face higher transaction costs than their …
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Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial …
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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
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MEASUREMENT OF PRIVATE SAVING -- IV. CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE -- V. TIME-SERIES EVIDENCE FOR MEXICO -- VI. MEXICO'S SAVING: WHICH …
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