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During the last years, Mexico has registered relatively large output falls. The business cycle accounting method of … Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2007) is applied to the two most recent recessions in Mexico (including the “Tequila crisis”) in … ; Tequila crisis ; Total factor productivity ; Mexico …
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This paper follows an algorithm that considers different dimensions of linkages across service and manufacturing industries to identify a cluster configuration of the Mexican economy and analyze their role in the economic performance of regions. It identifies 24 clusters and analyzes their...
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I study the diffusion process of permanent disinflationary shocks in the Mexican economy using disaggregated price data for 283 goods across 46 cities in the period 1995-2012. I first show that the distribution of shocks shows considerable heterogeneity, with more than 80% of all cases having...
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This paper shows that the evolution of the level of Mexico real and real per capita output between 1895 and 2008 can be … results indicate that for Mexico real and real per capita GDP, there are four stationary growth paths, separated by three …
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We estimate a supply and demand model of private college education services in Mexico for the 2005-2019 period, in …
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In this paper, I document the existence of unconditional convergence in labor productivity across Mexican states in three-digit manufacturing industries. The rate of convergence for the period 1988-2018 is 1.18% per year. However, this result does not hold at the aggregate level: I find no...
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Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the …-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of Mexico's formal employment. We estimate log wage models and decompose earnings …
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-2020 period in Mexico. Using satellite images of nightlight and microdata from the 2019 Economic Census, the formal and informal …). Although there are some measurements in Mexico of informal economic activity, these are not available at the municipal level or …
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Using a novel biographical database including all Presidents and presidential candidates in Colombia for the period 1833-2010 I show that the value of a political connection can be quantified in terms of the votes transferred within a political network. I consider three types of political...
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This paper studies the behavior of investment during demographic transitions. In particular, I focus on the period where the working age to population ratio reaches its maximum, namely the demographic window. I document that in Europe, Asia, and Oceania investment rates are higher 15 years...
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