We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …

This paper documents a positive relation between bank competition and the penetration of bank accounts at the municipal … level in Mexico. To account for potential biases in our regressions due to the endogeneity of market structure, we employ a … of an additional branch by a bank who is already present in the local market. Our results suggest that competition policy …

We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that … Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the "lost decade" of the … eighties, but also with supply-side features of the economy that have been present for at least four decades. Mexico's low …

This paper analyzes the monthly evolution of bank competition in Mexico from 2008 to 2019 using different measures …. Subsequently, we analyze whether the 2014 financial reform had an effect on some of our competition measures. We use ordinary and … supporting the idea that the reform had a positive average effect and increased banks competition intensity during a few years …

) consumer prices adjust slower than wholesale prices; (2) more competition, in the form of a higher density of stations, implies … lower markups and lower prices; and (3) more competition implies faster pass-through. However, we find geographical …