Spanish Abstract: El costo de asegurarnos que el ejercicio del gobierno corresponde con los principios de la democracia liberal debe incluir no sólo el costo de los votos y los partidos, sino también el costo de las instituciones que, en un proceso lento pero continuo, se han ido construyendo...

This work provides experimental evidence of the determinants of tax compliance in Mexico, and compares them to the results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both countries are contrasted to the predictions of the...

The adoption of the electronic government system by the public administration has created a new relationship between the citizenry and the Government. However, in the case of Mexico, the question of whether the electronic government system can actually improve its transparency has still not been...

In order to analyze the transfers policy among different levels of government, first it is necessary to calculate the capacity and fiscal effort of the specific region of study. This paper reviews the different methods to compute these two concepts and it also shows how the availability of...

The main objective of this paper is to fill the academic gap regarding the actors and determinants in the approval process of the public budget in Mexico. The research question deals with the analysis of the impact of the partisan and budgetary variables during the budget approval process. This...

This paper investigates private-value `reserve price' auctions when there is a strong bidder in an n-bidder model. Consider an auction model, in which bidders draw their values from the same distribution, but then identity of the high-value bidder is revealed. This can be more plausible than the...

Landsberger et al. (2001) identified optimal bidder behavior in first-price private-value auctions when the ranking of valuations is common knowledge, and derived comparative-statics predictions regarding the auctioneer's expected revenue and the efficiency of the allocation. The experiment...

Landberger et al. (2001) identified optimal bidder behavior in first- price private-value auctions when the ranking of valuations is common knowledge, and derived comparative-statics predictions regarding the auctioneer’s expected revenue and the efficiency of the allocation. The experiment...