This study presents a preliminary evaluation of the impact of the Seguro Popular (SP) on state and households health financing inequalities. There exist in Mexico extreme inequalities in health financing, which are explained by the high proportion of out-of-pocket spending in total health...

This paper aims at showing how the use of the Dynamical Systems Theory (DST) has affected the thematic content of the traditional economic analysis either by fostering new theoretical developments or by making translation from economic language to mathematics more complete. To this end, we...

Diverse empirical investigations have been carried out on the reasons behind inter-vivo private transferences, and on the relationship between these and liquidity constraints. Nevertheless, studies on how these transferences are spent are relatively scarce. In this document, marginal...

I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI) components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrolment ratios, using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111 countries. 1) A descriptive analysis uncovers a complex pattern of divergence and...

In this paper we estimate the macroeconomic impact of the 1997 Mexican pension reform, which substituted a pay-as-you-go for a fully- funded system with individual accounts. To analyze the impact of the reform on GDP growth, three main channels are considered: national savings and domestic...

A long term forest fire danger index is described. Such an index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self organized critical behavior. This behavior implies that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires exhibit a power-law dependence of occurrence frequency on burn...

This study estimates the incidence of public monetary and in kind transfers on the income of households with workers earning the minimum wage in Mexico. The study extends and updates a previous study, "Las transferencias públicas en el costo de vida de los hogares con trabajadores de salario...

In this paper, we analyze de market for electricity generation in Mexico through the merit order model. Using data for capacity, load factors, and expected demand for 2004; we carry out a simulation to find the lowest generation cost for the Mexican Electricity System. We find that steam plants...

The paper explores the influences of financial development on economic growth and its volatility. First, it discusses the theoretical literature that attempts to explain these relationships. Then, it presents time series evidence for the cases of Mexico and the US. We use GARCH models, which...

This paper evaluates to what extent the end-of-sample problem inherent to the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter may be ameliorated when estimating the trend component of GDP. For that purpose, the filter of St-Amant and van Norden (1997) is proposed using Mexican data and both univariate and...