the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different …

considerably after Lehmans failure; interconnectedness of a bank, estimated by the unified measure, is not necessarily related with …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind … the US. Theoretical models are ambiguous about the direction of the effect that product market competition should have on … productivity. On the one hand increasing competition lowers firm's profits and thus reduces incentives to exert effort (the …

The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …

activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate … economic activity is measured with the national coincident index of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The framework for …

's academic performance using the case of Mexico. In general, access to free health insurance could improve education outcomes …

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 …