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This article reviews Mexico’s competition law and policy, with particular emphasis on the challenges that the Federal Competition Commission (“CFC”) has faced in implementing an effective competition policy. Some of the difficulties analyzed are the loopholes in the current laws, the lack of cooperation between the CFC and other sectoral regulators, and the regulatory arbitrage by market participants. These challenges are then illustrated by the developments in the telecommunications sector. This sector is particularly interesting in the case of Mexico given the overwhelming power of the dominant firm and the overlapping and even conflicting mandates of the different government authorities …

This work disscuses aspects linked to identification of the important sectors through the input-output coefficients for the regional levels of the economies. We base our empirical evidence in a technology structure derivated of that sectors pushing of final demand. Results reflect that a unique method method to select important sectors does not exist. An final demand index selects to commercial sector as the most important. Sectors wiht the highest index correspond to activities highly dependent of the government.