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The Role of Bank Restructuring in Recovering from Crises : Mexico 1995-98
Krueger, Anne - 1999
Mexico has experienced since 1995. Although fresh domestic bank lending dried up, tradable firms obtained financing in the …
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Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor : The Impact of a Program in Mexico
De Hoyos, Rafael - 2019
This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479972
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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2005
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467660
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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico
Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016
experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456019
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457491
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Taxing Property in Developing Countries : Theory and Evidence from Mexico
Brockmeyer, Anne; Estefan, Alejandro; Ramírez Arras, Karina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
estimate these parameters using multiple sources of variation and administrative data from Mexico City. Both rate increases and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510516
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The Fiscal Contract up Close : Experimental Evidence from Mexico City
Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
compliance, leveraging a large public investment experiment and individual property tax records from Mexico City. Despite the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056101
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Institutions, Restructuring, and Macroeconomic Performance
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
A growing body of new research has emphasized the macroeconomic consequences of transactional impediments in factor markets, and their role in the recurrent restructuring requirements of modern economies. We first review the function institutional arrangements play in facilitating transactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471041
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FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy
Blomstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper examines how inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced the restructuring of the Japanese economy and can be expected to continue to do so in the future. We find that outward investment has helped Japanese firms to sustain foreign market shares and contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471068
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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471183