En los esfuerzos por entender la crisis de balanza de pagos de diciembre de 1994, una pregunta ha ocupado lugar preponderante: ¿A que se ha debido el peculiar comportamiento que tuvo durante los últimos diez años el ahorro interno en México? Las respuestas a esta pregunta tienen un valor que...

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants' responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...