nationally representative survey of rural households in Mexico. Shadow prices are significantly higher than the market price for … Mexico, indicating large de facto incentives to maintain traditional maize there. …

modern maize varieties using nationally representative rural household data from Mexico the center of diversity of maize. I …

and regionally representative of rural Mexico. Employing a Gini decomposition and controlling for whole household …

We raise the question whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to employment generation in Mexico and … FDI has a significantly positive, though quantitatively modest impact on manufacturing employment in Mexico. Moreover, we …

Germany's capital market relies on bank-intermediated products and not so much on capital market processes. Two of the … public guarantees. In the financing of firms, bank credits are far more important relative to market products - equity and …

We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general …-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions … after calibrating the model to the euro area against the rest of the industrial world. First, greater competition produces …

financial system in which there is intense competition among banks for private households' funds. Following earlier work by … contracts is restrained by households' financial market access. However, we also assume spatial monopolistic competition among … monopoly rents also entails a positive effect; however, this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does …