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Objective: To estimate the risk indicator of the future price of yellow corn #2 at the Chicago Futures Exchange (USA) regarding the spot price of white corn in the main producing regions in Mexico through the financial volatility indicator. Methodology: The research used the returns of the monthly time series corresponding to the spot price of white corn from January 1998 to December 2020, considering five producer-consumer regions of Mexico and the future price of yellow corn #2 as listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange. To quantify volatility, the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model of order (1,1) was estimated. Results: The yellow corn #2 volatility indicator was 0.9870 (future price). In the case of the spot price of white corn in Mexico, the volatility was 0.7977 for the national price, 0.3385 for the central region, 0.3206 for the western region, and 0.0078 for the southeast region. Implications: The high volatility of yellow corn #2 (close to unity) shows that the international market for this commodity is riskier than the national market or regional markets in Mexico. Conclusions: The national white corn market proved to be riskier than the west, center, and southeast regional markets, which have a higher volatility indicator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the components that determine the egg market, identifying the main determining variables of supply, demand, and price transmissions. Methodology: A model of simultaneous equations was formulated with information from the period 1975-2020. The estimation was carried out using two-stage least square method, with SYSLIN procedure of the SAS (Statistical Analysis System, v.9.4.) computer package. The main economic and technological variables that affect the functions of the model were accounted. Results: The econometric model that represents the egg market is composed of five functional relationships and one identity function. There is an inelastic supply (0.15) to changes in the producer price and an inelastic demand (-0.54) to the consumer price. The producer price for pork was a weak competitor for egg production (-0.25). The consumer price of pork is a strong complement (-1.16) and that of beef is a close substitute (1.12), both quantities demanded. Limitations: The period of analysis of the egg market in Mexico. Conclusions: The variables that determine the egg supply in Mexico are the real producer prices of egg, pork, balance feed, and technology or feed conversion. The egg demand in Mexico is determined primarily by the real consumer prices of eggs, pork, beef, and the real national disposable income per capita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: In this article we provide evidence that measures of school supply, such as quantity and quality at the local level, are important predictors of dropout behaviour among conditional cash transfer beneficiaries in Mexico. We use administrative records of the Oportunidades programme in both rural and urban areas to follow the schooling trajectory of a cohort of students from sixth grade to high school. Under half of rural beneficiaries attending sixth grade make it to the tenth grade. Our regression analysis indicates that the absence of a junior high school in a locality increases the probability of dropping out after sixth grade by 6.8 percentage points; the absence of a high school increases the probability of dropping out after ninth grade by 12.2 percentage points. This means that 16% of all rural sixth‐grade students would enter tenth grade if they had junior high and high schools in their localities. Attending a low‐quality junior high school increases the probability of dropping out after ninth grade by 13 percentage points in rural areas and 7.6 percentage points in urban areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Animal protein is basic in the Mexicans diet and the mains sources are the meat of chicken, beef and pig. In 2011, 60 kilograms per person were consumed, and 16.5 kilos was of bovine. To establish and quantify the effect on the Mexican beef market and its main determinants variables an econometric model was designed and estimated with two stages least squares with secondary information for the period 1970-2011. A context of open economy for the beef market was considered, with increasing production cost and loss of participation in the national market. The supply is inelastic to the producer price and the demand is elastic to the consumer price, the import price of meat and grains affects the supply, demand and the foreign trade of balance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the political practices exercised by local government officials in Mexico City in the early eighteenth century, around the meat supply. The idea is to observe the common good, but settled not only in humanism doctrine, but also within a mercantilist policy, in which the economic interests of the Crown intended to come together as one body with those of his subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to present ideas on the reconfiguration of food supply and distribution in Mexico based on a consolidation of open economy processes. The assumption is that to begin with the impacts of the aperture model of food supply occur in the country’s metropolitan zones, as these have greater consumer density and more income regularity, together with dominant interests, cultural sponsors and nutritional habits. The metropolises are axes of supply organization, implying structuring systems to adjust a model of demand according to the heterogeneous interests of their consumers. Food supply in Mexico is therefore immersed in a new transition that follows the transformations in consumption in the present economic development model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mexican sawn wood is facing a lack of competitiveness with respect to imported wood. Over the period 1993-1995 average national production was able to supply 80% of the national consumption whereas by the period 2001-2003 only was capable of supplying 24%. In order to determine the factors that could revert this tendency, a non linear programming model was used. Results indicate that if there were subsidies a 30% reduction in production costs would decrease imported wood in about 1,1%, which means 50,139 m³ of sawn wood, and it would increase the national production in 2,1%. A 20% reduction in transportation cost would lead to a rise in the national sawn wood production of 3,8%, this is 90,500 m³ in terms of sawn wood; consequently, imported sawn wood would decrease in 2,2%, which means 102,034 m³ of sawn wood. If a 6% tariff above the international price were to be implemented, the national production would increase in about 5,6%, this means 132,355 m³ of sawn wood. This tariff will help to decrease imported wood in about 9,5%, this is 306,923 m³ of sawn wood with respect to those of the 2001-2003 period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]