Mexico's Exports Attraction, 1995-2020: A Gravity Model Approach.

This paper analyzes Mexico's export activity from 1995 to 2020. It applies an augmented gravity model to test how economic size, the distance between countries, endowment factors differences, cultural closeness, and commercial rapprochement have affected Mexico's exports to other countries. The results suggest that Mexico's trading partners' economic size and distance largely explain Mexico's exports to the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Spain, Japan, and Brazil. However, differences in endowment factors, cultural closeness, and commercial rapprochement reasonably influenced Mexico's exports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]