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Financial resilience is a faculty that improves the capabilities of companies to identify financial problems, resist them, confront them and recover quickly in the face of an economic crisis, such as that generated by COVID-19. The objective of this article is to determine the effects of financial resilience on the economic well-being of MSMEs in Baja California, Mexico. An economic well-being index is estimated based on the OECD/INFE (2020) methodology and an econometric model with information from 465 entrepreneurs to prove that financial resilience attenuated economic shocks in MSMEs during the recent period of economic crisis. The results suggest that, although the economic deficit negatively affected the economic well-being of the MSME, the majority of entrepreneurs preferred to be prudent, supporting deficits and avoiding new financial instruments. It was evident that MSME entrepreneurs sought to restore and improve their economic well-being through financial prudence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This research aims to find which components of Decent Work are associated with Subjective Well-Being. Design/methodology/approach: With data from 2021 from the states of Mexico, econometric models are carried out. Findings: It is found that disposable income and satisfaction with leisure time have a significant positive relationship with employees' Subjective Well-Being. Likewise, the rate of critical occupancy conditions and informality rate have a significant negative relationship with Subjective Well-Being. The research suggests that influencing the Decent Work conditions of the population in Mexico could favour their Subjective Well-Being. Social implications: Share guidelines that enable employers and governments to establish strategies and policies that promote Decent Work to increase the Subjective Well-being of employees. Originality/value: This article evaluates different variables that make up the Decent Work construct in their level of influence on Subjective Well-being. These relationships and variables considered have not been identified in previous studies as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Worldwide, it is widely recognized that violent conflicts constrain economic growth and development. Thus, it is necessary to research and analyse the main causes of violence and their relationship with development. This paper analyses how violence has affected economic development in the Mexican context during the 2000–2015 period. It takes into account that in the last decade, this country has had increased levels of violence, especially since the 'war on drugs' against drug trafficking was promulgated in 2006. This study uses different econometric models that apply the assessments of the panel unit root and cointegration tests and panel cointegration estimation. The results indicate that the tests used to validate the data allow the panel data cointegration relationships to be calculated. They demonstrate the existence of a long-run relationship between violence and economic development. Specifically, the results take into account that gross domestic product per capita and public investments have inverse relationships with the homicide rate, whereas poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and the Gini index have direct relationships with the homicide rate. Moreover, violence is strongly related to the deterrence variables. The findings of this study demonstrate that drug trafficking explains the increased violence in Mexico. Thus, it is important to develop and formulate adequate policies to control this situation, take measures to control violence starting with its root causes and promote social and economic development with a strategy to strengthen legal activities in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research in to analyze the incidence of the economic and social indicators of Mexico and China on the flows of direct foreign investment. For this purpose, it is analyzed first the behavior of the main macroeconomic variables of these economies. Subsequently, the theories of foreign direct investment are reviewed in order to understand its nature, motivations, and ways in which it is presented. From which the methodological features of the econometric models applied to each country are addressed. The results establish that in the Mexican case, the value added in the manufacturing industry and intentional homicides determined the flow of direct foreign investment to the country. While salaries, public spending on education and intentional homicides motivated foreign direct investment in the case of China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To analyze soy (Glycine max L.) production and importation determinants in Mexico, during the 1990-2000 period. Design/Methodology/Approach: Using lineal models, two econometric models were developed, in order to evaluate the relation between the soy production, harvested area, and soy production vs. importation variables. Results: We confirmed that soy production in Mexico is related to the increase of the harvested area, which promotes an increase in the domestic market and a reorganization of the soy harvested areas. The second model verified that the importations are the result of the limited domestic production. We propose a set of actions to increase domestic soy production. Study Limitations/Implications: The models must consider new variables to broaden the determinants and to improve the public policy actions proposed. Findings/Conclusions: The low domestic coverage rate and the high dependency on imports requires the implementation of policy actions to improve the domestic production capacity. A specific set of actions is proposed. [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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Using eight cross-section econometric models applied to a sample of 31 countries, we find that, although the Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) of COVID-19 is explained by 'structural' variables that were given prior to the pandemic (healthcare infrastructure, comorbidities, poverty and the HDI), the 'response' variables to the crisis (fiscal support, health policy, and, above all, government narrative) have been determinant in the evolution of the pandemic. We show that the dummy variable representing populist countries is significant, demonstrating that, as Shiller (2017) stated, narrative plays a major role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the main explanatory factors of the labor poverty in the States of Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. Methodology: It was elaborated spatial regression models with explanatory variables such as economic growth, level of integration of the Mexican states with the international economy, average schooling, employment in the informal sector of the economy, insecurity, and cumulative COVID-19 infections as proportion of the population. Results: Main results suggest that the variables of contraction in the Mexican states production and average schooling are significant for the control of the labor poverty, both showing negative relation, whilst average inflation rate, informal employment and cumulative COVID-19 infections are significant variables, which have positive coefficient, therefore these variables favor greater labor poverty rates. Limitations: The analysis period only considers the third quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021. Conclusions: The main determinants of the labor poverty rate in the Mexican states during the COVID-19 pandemic are the average inflation, average schooling, and cumulative COVID-19 infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• β-convergence in energy consumption per capita across Mexican states is studied. • Financial crisis and energy reform pre—and post—periods are examined. • Aftermath periods of both the crisis and reform vanish the convergence patterns. • Both absolute and conditional β-convergence in per capita energy consumption exist. • OLS and spatially dynamic models are used to control for spatial correlation. • Higher catch-up faced by least developed economies is found through spatial models. • There is evidence in favor of a curve of efficient energy development (CEED). This paper examines the convergence of energy consumption per capita (ECPC) in the 32 Mexican states from 2002 to 2017. Regardless of the recent Global Financial Crisis and Mexican Energy Reform, we first find evidence of a positive, increasing, and statistically significant spatial correlation of ECPC across states. Using cross-section and spatial dynamic econometric models, we document absolute and conditional β -convergence in ECPC during the pre-crisis, pre-Energy Reform, post-Energy Reform, and the whole study period. We report stable and larger convergence rates in spatial dynamic models, close to 20%, versus 3% without spatial effects. These figures suggest between-states relationships are crucial in Mexico. We also find an inverted U-shape relationship between ECPC and GDP per capita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We examine the efficiency of the cash transfers on multidimensional extreme poverty in the states of Mexico for 2008-2018. We estimate econometric models with panel data with OLS and 2SLS and with cross-section data with GMM that shield against endogeneity of the determinants of poverty. We prove that there are perverse incentives that have caused that transfers perpetuate poverty in the less developed states. Homicides and informal employment have perpetuated it. Agricultural labor productivity, economic growth, productive export orientation, and a better Rule of Law reduce it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mexican government has been decreasing its participation as the main investor in the Mexican economy, but it has been increasing its current spending in the different states of the country. This behaviour has influenced the slow economic growth of Mexico in the period 1999–2019. However, the effects of these spending decisions have had a heterogeneous effect on the growth levels of Mexican states. The aim of this paper is to identify these effects by considering the impact that a federal entity generates on its neighbours (push-out effect) and the benefits it receives from its close neighbours (push-in effect) when there are spillovers of this economic growth. The methodology used to analyse the relationship between economic growth and public spending makes use of an econometric model with Spatial Autoregressive Vectors (SpVAR) to test the existing causal relationships. With the SpVAR model we can show the spatial effects of interaction between the thirty-two states that make up the Mexican geography in the period 1999–2019 and to determine spatial spreading and growth causality. The results obtained make it possible to establish that economic growth spreads from one federal entity to another over time and that public spending does not have a fundamental influence on this growth, due to the strong reduction in investment spending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La globalización económica que se inició a finales de la década de 1970 y principios de la década de 1980 ha generado un estado de inseguridad laboral para los trabajadores. Este estado de inseguridad laboral coincide con dos tendencias: la reducción de la participación salarial en el ingreso y la precarización del empleo, ambas observadas en la mayoría de las economías de mercado desde principios de los años ochenta. El objetivo de este artículo es ofrecer una explicación sobre cómo la creciente inseguridad en el empleo ha provocado que la participación de los salarios en el ingreso se reduzca y que el empleo se precarice. Para cumplir con este objetivo se propone un modelo de salarios de eficiencia, en un escenario de equilibrio restringido por la demanda. Dicho modelo, además, tiene la virtud de explicar algunas características propias del mercado laboral de México en las últimas décadas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A luz de la ley de Okun (1983), en su versión de tasas de crecimiento, se evaluó la sensibilidad del desempleo a la actividad económica estatal en México (desde inicios de 2004 hasta el primer semestre de 2018). Para capturar la heterogeneidad de las 32 entidades federativas se contrastaron los resultados de regresiones individuales con la estimación de datos de panel de efectos fijos. El coeficiente de Okun es significativo y con el signo correcto en 22 entidades federativas, con una variación entre -7,21 y -1,25. Las diez entidades restantes (con signo incorrecto y coeficiente no significativo) se caracterizan por deficientes desempeños económicos, sociales e institucionales. Se observa que la gran recesión generó cambios estructurales en 15 de las 22 entidades federativas donde sí se cumple la ley de Okun en todo el período; además, en estas 22 entidades el índice del Estado de derecho y la tasa de condiciones críticas de ocupación determinan la sensibilidad del crecimiento del desempleo al crecimiento del producto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The paper aims to prove that between 1992 and 2016, people in poverty as a proportion of the total population has not been reduced. In particular, food poverty (FP) represented an average of 22%, despite the fact that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and GDP, social development expenditure and food programme expenditure (both as GDP proportion) grew by 0.96%, 1.9%, 2.7% and −17.4% on an annual average, respectively. Design/methodology/approach: There are non-linear relationships between economic growth and food poverty expenditure to reduce poverty. Three econometric models were estimated as follows: a linear model [ordinary least squares (OLS)] that addresses the capability of the economic growth to reduce FP (which detects a structural change in 2007) and three models of regime change (Markov–Switching Regression) that prove the existence of two different regimes. Findings: The author proved that economic growth has lost the capability to reduce poverty and that there are decreasing effects of expenditure in addressing poverty since 2007. These results point out that Mexico is in a poverty trap and suggests that for the economy as for life and even more in the case of social (public) policies, more is not necessarily better than less. Therefore, the author suggests that the resources allocated in response to poverty may well have generated perverse incentives that yielded the opposite results. Originality/value: There is no official measure of the public expenditure for poverty. Therefore, an accurate series was built to estimate the government effort and do the econometrics that proves the main hypothesis. This is another contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Multiple variables can affect meat product supply and demand. An analysis was done of the magnitude of the effect of the main economic and technological variables that influence supply and demand of chicken meat in eight regions in Mexico during the period 1996 to 2016. A multiple linear regression econometric model was formulated for each region, including the main economic and technological variables determining supply and demand. In most of the regions, chicken meat supply reacted directly and elastically to changes in technology (average = 1.7395), directly and inelastically to the price of chicken meat (average = 0.9912), and inversely and inelastically to the prices of pork (average = -0.3686) and feed (-0.1423). In all regions demand behaved elastically in relation to population size (average = 2.0853), and inelastically in relation to the current price of chicken meat (average = -0.1698), per capita income (average = 0.2560) and the current price of beef (average = 0.0272). Population growth had the greatest effect on chicken meat consumption in all the regions. All the tested models had overall significance, although not all the predictive variables had a significant effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contributes to the empirical research around the "wage-led" or "profit-led" demand regimes. It first reviews how Kalecki, and then Steindl, approached the relationship between economic growth and income distribution. Then, empirical analysis carried out under the probabilistic approach to econometric modeling shows statistical evidence, estimated through cointegration analysis, that in the long run, in three very open economies—Mexico, France, and Korea—the wage share is positively associated with demand and output. It finally discusses the macroeconomic dilemma that almost all countries have to face, i.e., a positive effect of a high-wage policy on demand and employment may diverge from a negative effect on output compatible with external equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the alignment of supply and demand for antenatal care (ANC) in Mexico based on the definition of access provided by Donabedian: the “degree of adjustment” between resources and needs. Alignment was studied in the teenage and adult population of Mexico that lacked conventional social security between 2008 and 2015, a period of expanding financial resources for health and public health insurance coverage. Spatial econometric methods were used to analyze data from the Ministry of Health on the supply and demand for ANC in 2,314 municipalities (94% of all municipalities in Mexico). During this period, the relative weight of ANC demand among adolescents increased 37% while the production of antenatal consultations for adolescent and adult women remained unchanged. Bivariate spatial analyses of correlation between supply and demand for ANC services yielded a minimal spatial correlation, or lack of territorial correspondence, between supply and demand among women in both age groups. Spatial econometric analysis confirmed a non-significant association between supply and demand for ANC services. Our findings suggest the existence of misalignment between supply and demand for these services. This requires a reassessment of the management and delivery of ANC services at the local level in order to increase effective coverage and improve the overall performance of the health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Violence against women is a complex problem that requires immediate attention in countries such as Mexico, where the number of reports of violence continues to rise. From the perspective of the social sciences, well-established theories such as Community Theory and Intersectional Feminism have pointed out that several elements of the social context and belonging to certain social categories are determining factors related to this problem. However, the relationship between feminicides in Mexico and these determining factors is still unknown, since no rigorous statistical analysis has been carried out so far. In this article we demonstrate that both Community Theory and Intersectional Feminism can be applied to the case of feminicide in Mexico and that they manage to conceptualize, to a certain degree, the dynamics of this crime. The results we obtained show that within the same municipality, belonging to certain social groups influences on susceptibility. On the other hand, it was statistically verified that there is also a significant influence of the neighboring municipalities when they present an educational lag. In other words, the risk of feminicide comes largely from the geographical and social context. To verify these results, we have constructed various spatial and nonspatial econometric models, which allow an understanding of feminicide and its factors through the experimental confrontation between official data associated with both theories mentioned above. [Display omitted] • The risk of feminicide in Mexico comes largely in function of the geographical and social context. • Both: Community Theory and Intersectional Feminism can be applied to the case of feminicide in Mexico. • The kidnapping crime increases the cases of feminicide by 2.6 in the case of the State of Mexico and Mexico City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Lag of X (SLX) spatial econometric model to examine the relationship between contextual factors associated with violence levels in Mexico over the period 2005-2010, a period in which violence in the country reached record levels. We provide local spillover estimates of relevant covariates at both levels of the hierarchy, i.e., the municipal and state levels in Mexico. We also provide a methodology to compare relevant models regarding the proper specification of the spatial weight matrix in these models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper1 examines whether a lag in the adjustment of lending is and deposit interest rates due to changes in monetary policy rate. We use an asymmetric error correction model to study the responses of interest rates since the lending and deposit rates adjust with different dynamics to the equilibrium level due to changes in the reference rate. Specifically, the asymmetric model allows examining differences when the interest rates are on or below their equilibrium level. Finally, we find a statistically significant relationship between lending and borrowing rates with the reference rate; the relationship is positive and slightly higher for the lending rate than for the deposit rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the economic context of free trade in the past two decades, the Mexican pork industry has faced significant changes that have caused modifications in the production structure and trade in this sector, but their effects have differed depending on the regions. The aim of this research was to investigate the market operation of pork carcasses in eight regions of Mexico, and to quantify the magnitude of the impact of the main economic variables affecting supply and demand for meat in each region. An econometric model with multiple linear regressions was used for each region, it included the main economic and technological variables that determine the supply and demand for pork. The supply of pork carcasses in most regions was directly proportional to technology and elastic, in terms of price of meat it is directly proportional and inelastic and for price of food it is inversely proportional and inelastic, the regional average values were 1.241, 0.062 and -0.097, respectively. Demand was elastic relative to population size and it was inelastic with the current price and income per capita in all regions, recording average values of 1.871, -0.070 and 0.132. Population growth was the variable that showed higher incidence with respect to consumption of pork. All models had global significance, however, not all explanatory variables presented individual significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transport infrastructure influences the location of manufacturing firms in that sense, this paper compares the influence of accessibility to ports for export and the location of manufacturing firms in two municipalities in the northern Mexico border. The tools used include the management of a geographic information system and micro-level data of the industrial parks of each municipality. Statistical analysis was based on the application of Poisson models to estimate the sets placement options. The results show that accessibility and market size have greater significance in the location of firms in both cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a small open economy model to study the role of real interest rate shocks in Mexico. The interest rate is divided in two terms: an international rate and a country risk premia. Simulations show that the model with endogenous risk premia is able to explain several stylized facts at business cycle frequencies. Counterfactual analysis suggests that output volatility could be lowered by approximately 30 percent if interest rate shocks are eliminated, especially due to its country risk premia component. In the absence of such shocks, cyclical output and consumption would have fallen by 2 and 4.5 percent during the 1994-1995 recession, in sharp contrast with the falls of 12 and 16 percent observed in the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The transport sector is the main contributor to CO2 emissions in Mexico accounting for 39% in 2010, of which road transport represented 92%. This paper presents a disaggregation of the fuel consumption and its related CO2 emissions from passenger and freight road transport in Mexico, based on a bottom-up model. Results show that private gasoline-powered vehicles represented 32.6% of CO2 emissions in 2010, followed by gasoline light duty freight vehicles with 25%, diesel interurban buses, 11.3% and diesel heavy duty freight vehicles, 12%. A simple econometric model shows that gasoline price increases have not impacted gasoline demand. Mitigation of GHG emissions must be based on policies aimed to reduce fuel consumption in gasoline vehicles, such as through fuel efficiency standards, but also reduction of the use of private cars by public transportation and logistics operation for light freight transportation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this document we evaluate the determinants of shipments of hazardous waste to the US. We consider a sample of firms operating in the state of Baja California for the 2008-2010 sample period. The analysis consists on the estimation of two econometric specifications. The first refers to a truncated model in the spirit of Tobit. The second is a probabilistic model. The results of the Tobit model suggest that size, location and origin of the firm influence the amount of shipments. In particular, shipments are positively associated with larger firms; those located in the municipality of Tijuana and those whose origin is foreign. The probabilistic model finds that a depreciation of the Mexican peso contributes to an increase in the likelihood of sending a shipment. This may be the result of an improvement in the border economic environment due to the depreciation of the currency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]