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Does improving institutional quality lower borrowing costs or raise them? Better institutions the marginal productivity of capital, the demand for funds and the interest rate. They may also lending risks, raising the supply of funds and lowering the cost of capital. Using data from 100 this...
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Relying on John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University, this paper explores the relation between economics and other disciplines. Newman had high regard for disciplinary specialization, which he thought would teach students and scholars how to think and would keep them intellectually honest. At...
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The existence of a large informal labor market — those citizens who do not pay taxes or make social security contributions, but receive social benefits — is a major issue for taxation and social protection policies. Why do some government policies seem to increase the cost to workers and...
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This is a review of the paper by Anton, Hernandez and Levy (2012), which is motivated by the analysis by Santiago Levy (2008) on the impact on the labor market of subsidized programs that deviate demand from funded social insurance programs. The paper deals with the evaluation of a fiscal reform...
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The banking panic that began in 2008 in the United States quickly had effects on the money market in Mexico. The article describes the main events within the paradigm of the banking panic. The development of substitutes of money in Mexico parallels the phenomenon in the United States. Although...
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Spanish Abstract: El gobierno federal de México ha carecido de una política laboral integral por décadas, lo que imposibilita resolver problemas ingentes en el mercado de trabajo. La fuerza de trabajo tiene una alta proporción de adultos sin habilidades fundamentales para el trabajo, y el...
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Spanish Abstract: La reforma fiscal mexicana de 2014 en México eleva impuestos a trabajadores y a corporaciones, en especial las multidivisionales, y define nuevos impuestos especiales. Busca enfrentar un fuerte crecimiento en la deuda pública generando ingresos fiscales en fuentes que son...
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Spanish Abstract: El salario mínimo es bajo. La causa es cierta visión monetaria que liga causalmente un incremento de salarios con inflación, motivando que el salario mínimo aumente igual o menos que los precios en general. Mayor salario mínimo afectará el empleo de mujeres y jóvenes de...
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Spanish Abstract: A lo largo de la historia, la religión se relaciona con una gran industria de servicios. Los servicios provistos por instituciones religiosas son con frecuencia considerados como poseedores de externalidades que afectan al sistema político, económico y social. En...
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Spanish Abstract: Se estudia el posible efecto causal del estado de salud hacia los ingresos laborales. En un modelo económico las personas deciden moverse hacia estados de mejora en salud o de no mejora. La decisión afecta los ingresos laborales. Se exploran modelos que plantean otras...
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