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 …

the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different … use stochastic frontier analysis methods to test for productivity and efficiency differences in manufacturing throughout …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the ?natural trading partners? hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …

This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from … productivity and estimation methods, it shows that the productivity gap increased and converged to a higher gap level. Moreover, it … the previous literature. The paper also finds that under NAFTA the industries which have smaller initial productivity gap …