electoral rules and forms of government for fiscal policy and rent extraction, even when non-random constitution selection is …

The monetary powers embedded in the U.S. Constitution were revolutionary and led to a watershed transformation in the …

A self-enforcing constitution creates a political process that provides an alternative to civil conflict for resolving … possible to design such a self-enforcing constitution. The paper is also concerned with discovering generic features of a self …-enforcing constitution. The analysis yields the following theoretical propositions: If and only if (1) none of the parties to a dispute …

Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …

stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of its workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …

illustrative example, I estimate that migration from Mexico to the United States raises global income by an amount equivalent to …

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 …