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This study investigates the effect of trade liberalization on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the … assesses the marginal relation between capital flows (e.g., aid flows) and import growth, and the trade balance and the current … account of the balance of payments. The higher import growth contrasts with the more modest export growth following trade …
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This paper examines the process of trade liberalisation in Mexico, particularly since the mid-1980s and the signing of … income elasticity of demand for imports (partly associated with an increase in foreign direct investment with a high import …
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liberalisation involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on exports, imports and the balance of payments in Mexico … and imports; however, the effects of NAFTA are negligible. Since the mid-1980s, the propensity to import has exceeded the … slowdown of Mexico's growth in recent years. NAFTA has not delivered the improved growth performance that was promised by …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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This paper provides a description of some of the empirical regularities for the Mexican business cycle. The purpose is to have a benchmark for assessing dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for the Mexican case. We follow the Kydland and Prescott methodology to describe the cyclical...
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discrimination in urban Mexico as measured by the gender earnings differential. More than four decades ago, Becker argued that labour …
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This paper investigates the consequences of the currency devaluation, both in levels and rates, on the balance of payments in a cash-in-advance economy with finite horizons, endogenous capital accumulation and international capital immobility. In this context, a once and for all currency...
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Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment for the period 1994-2004, the empirical analysis is conducted on …
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This paper uses an endogenous merger formation approach in a concentrated international oligopoly to examine the effects of trade liberalization on the nature of merger incentives (national vs. international). The effects of unilateral trade liberalization on a country's industry structure are...
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We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasison distributional effects across countries. We first develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that...
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