Mexico, a prominent liberalizer, failed to attain stellar gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s, and since … 2001 its GDP and exports have stagnated. In this paper we argue that the lack of spectacular growth in Mexico cannot be … extraordinary growth of exports and foreign domestic investment (FDI). The key to the Mexican puzzle lies in Mexico's response to …

In this paper, we derive three lessons from Mexico's experience. First, deep reforms like trade liberalization are not … elites breaks down. In the case of Mexico, this happened during a fiscal crisis, when some groups tried to displace other …, Mexico limited radical liberalization to the manufacturing sector. The government has only recently begun to undertake …

Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …

Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … of the manufacturing belt in and around Mexico City and the formation of broadly specialized industry centers located in … northern Mexico, relatively close to the United States. The North American Free Trade Agreement is likely to reinforce these …

Mexico. In Section 1. we use comparable measures of three air pollutants in a cross-section of urban areas located in 42 … higher levels of income. Section 2 studies the determinants of the industry pattern of U.S. imports from Mexico and of value … added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in the U.S. industry …

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early …