Amid challenges, there is hope that a strong, expanding U.S. economy and a bright global outlook will support brisk Mexican growth in 2018. Additionally, domestic consumption is expected to increase as inflation decelerates and wages catch up to prices

The El Paso Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas held a daylong conference, “U.S.–Mexico Manufacturing: Common Bonds,” in November 2010 to assess the future of U.S.–Mexico trade in manufactured goods following the global recession. Speakers reviewed the prospects for bilateral...

Texas border cities, at the front line of North American Free Trade Agreement-driven economic changes, have found new paths to growth by taking advantage of trade-inspired commercial opportunities during the past two decades. Partly as a result, unemployment in the largest communities has declined

For decades, Mexico's maquiladoras have been a major growth engine in the Rio Grande region, and monthly reports on the industry's employment, wages and production were key barometers for the border region's economy. ; We developed a model to estimate Juarez's monthly maquiladora employment....

In this paper we use a dynamic single-factor model originally due to Stock and Watson [18, 19] to measure the business cycle in four Texas border Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Mexico. We then measure the degree of economic integration between border cities, the US, Texas, and Mexican...