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inflation’s total variation in Mexico. In this context, we study the performance of seasonal time series models to forecast …
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, employment and GDP in both the US and Mexico. For the subsample preceding the break our findings are similar to those of earlier … parameters being higher than 1 in the case of Mexico …
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We use the regime-switching econometric models in Hamilton (1989) and Filardo (1994) to study business cycles in Mexico …. In particular, we characterize the ups and downs of economic activity in Mexico. As a proxy for economic activity, we use … sector indicators. Our results show that recessions in Mexico are deeper and shorter than expansions …
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quarterly GDP for Mexico. In particular, the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regression model is employed to incorporate both …
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This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for four high-inflation countries. The method of Zivot and Andrews (1992) is employed to detect the time-series behavior of the exchange rates and consumer price indices of these countries. We find that these variables...
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We study how different measures of market concentration explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is the traditional measure of market structure concentration. The Dominance Index is a competition measure used by Mexican regulators. The...
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longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …
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Effects of the competition between the two South locations (Mexico and China) in the Northern market (U.S.) is analyzed …
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This paper applies a stochastic frontier approach to analyze the evolution of technical efficiency in manufacturing as a source of regional growth, taking as a unit of analysis the Mexican states in the period 1988-2008. The main findings of our analysis are threefold. First, technical...
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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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