Using an error correction framework, this study analyzes the long- and short-run dynamics of electricity demand in Ciudad Juarez, a large metropolitan economy on Mexico’s northern border. Demand is decomposed into the total number of electricity accounts and electricity usage per customer,...

This study analyzes the effect of oil price shocks on the economies of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, jointly referred to as the “Borderplex”. It employs a measure of the net oil price increase developed by Hamilton (1996) in a manner similar to that applied by Sill (2007) to...