In this paper we present an analytical framework to study the demands of foreign and domestic factors of production of the maquiladora industry. We derive the net profitability of demanding high instead of low quality inputs. We argue that differences in the quality of inputs between foreign and...

En una economía con fines altruistas existen transferencias privadas que redistribuyen el ingreso a través de un mecanismo de mercado. Las transferencias privadas modifican la distribución de la carga fiscal y la habilidad del gobierno de recaudar ingreso público a través de impuestos, por...

Private transfers are a market mechanism that changes the inequality in the distribution of income. Should the government increase or reduce the size of Pareto efficient public transfers after observing an increase in inter vivos private transfers that reduces (increases) inequality in the...

In this paper we develop a probabilistic voting model of inter-gov\-ern\-men\-tal transfers to explain the distribution and size of local public goods. We find that: i) The parties’ political competition for votes induces the central government to provide regional transfers that lead to Pareto...

La evidencia internacional muestra que el gasto de los gobiernos subnacionales depende de las transferencias condicionadas del gobierno central. En este contexto es relevante preguntarse: ¿cuál debiese ser el diseño óptimo de las transferencias inter-gubernamentales? En este artículo...

In this article we study the role of inter-regional externalities of public goods, equity, and electoral competition in determining the budget of the central government on local public goods. The main results of the paper are: first, our model predicts that the federal budget on local public...

In a model of a representative democracy, we incorporate into the analysis of tax design the constitutional provision that allows voters to propose tax initiatives. In this paper, we present a theory of tax substitution as the rationale for a tax rate limit (TRL) initiative. In our model the tax...

This study attempted to examine the economic efficiency of the sulfur dioxide (SO<Subscript>2</Subscript>) emissions control policy in Japan using a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The SO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions control policy is divided into three stages by epochal policy decisions. Reducing the incidence of chronic bronchitis and...</subscript></subscript>

Este estudio estima los factores determinantes de los niveles de emisión de dióxido de azufre (SO2) utilizando modelos estructurales con datos de panel a nivel estatal en México. El modelo se calcula para las emisiones de SO2 de diferentes fuentes de contaminación, en concreto, fuentes de la...

La apertura del acceso mundial a la educación implica una tendencia positiva en la matriculación de estudiantes y el caso del nivel universitario en México no es la excepción. Paradójicamente, este incremento conlleva el riesgo de traducirse en un incremento en la tasa de abandono escolar...