Baylis, Kathy; Garduño-Rivera, Rafael; Piras, Gianfranco - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 286-302
Agreement (NAFTA). Specifically, we ask whether or not NAFTA increased the concentration of economic activity in Mexico. Unlike … previous work which uses state-level data, we identify the effect of NAFTA on economic activity at the municipal level allowing … nature of these data, we make use of spatial panel econometric methods. We find that NAFTA caused wealthy regions nearest to …