rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …

exchange rate explain most of the fluctuations in Mexico’s annual growth since 1979. The paper also estimates how the effects … of these external constraints have changed since Mexico’s liberalization policies of the late 1980s and the formation of … NAFTA in 1994. Estimates of an investment function and other tests show that growth drives investment but not conversely, in …

(CFE) of Mexico (Mexico Public Electric Utility) presents a practical method of analysis for an investment to rehabilitate … addressed in most of the investment appraisals has been: “is this investment the least cost way to supply the electricity … with the risks inherent in the project inputs, such as fuel and investment costs to make an assessment of the overall risks …

We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse …

. Although results should be considered tentative, high labour cost beyond endowment and conservative investment behavior emerge …

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …

particular spin to this conclusion by showing that investment decisions at the firm level are also explained by the restoration …, perhaps the most relevant result is the confirmation that in Colombia, investment decisions are negatively affected by the …

also developed a summary index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to what extent …, investment funds are going to firms with a higher marginal return to capital. Then it was examined the relationship between this … has led to an increase in the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated. …

The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment …