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Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We...
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This paper shows evidence of positive effects in the economic development of sending communitiesin Mexico due to … and low migration municipalities in the North and South of Mexico. As well, we find a positive and significant relation …
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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 …
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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 …
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Mexican manufacturing industry we find that indicators for local competition are positively related to the technology imports …
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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 …
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What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
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The development of the American economy was accompanied by significant spatial income inequalities between the northern and southern regions. While many factors contributed to northern industrialization and southern stagnation, an important factor was differences in their institutions. In the...
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While the economies of the fifteen countries that were in the European Union (EU15) in 2000 will continue to grow from now until 2040, they will not be able to match the surges in growth that will occur in South and East Asia. In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly...
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Studies of the development of local economies often point to large-scale World War II military spending as a source of long-term economic growth, even though the spending declined sharply after the demobilization. We examine the longer term impact of the temporary war spending on county...
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