Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment … been lackluster, trailing that of many other developing nations. In this paper, I review arguments for why Mexico hasn …. These are factors internal to Mexico. One possible external factor is that the country has the bad luck of exporting goods …

This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by … Mexico), or use traditional retailers. Walmex provides access to a larger market, but it puts continuous pressure on its …

This paper examines how sales force impact competition and equilibrium prices in the context of a privatized pension … market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico … foster competition in social safety net markets with large segments of inelastic consumers …

Mexican manufacturing industry we find that indicators for local competition are positively related to the technology imports …

empirical literature on franchising, mostly due to data limitations. We exploit a newly assembled data set that allows us not … only to describe the contracting practices of US and Canadian franchisors in Mexico but, most importantly, to compare them … agreements in Mexico compared to their home market. Our empirical results confirm hypotheses derived from the theories …