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The relationship between infrastructure investment and economic growth is explored for the main urban areas of Mexico during the period 1985-2008. The methodology consists of a production function estimated by means of panel data techniques that include distributed effects in time. The findings highlight that the economic impact from infrastructure investment is effectively spread through time and cannot only be contemporaneous. This result suggests long-run effects. Moreover, the empirical estimates are according to the urban areas’ economic performance: Where major infrastructure provision exists, higher rates of growth are also taking place. Conclusions highlight that if infrastructure provision is not enough …

The geographical conditions of innovation in Mexico’s regions and its relationship with knowledge capital and productivity are analyzed along 1994-2006. A spatial model is applied to capture the knowledge spillovers effects amongst geographically neighbors regions. Results show positive and significant effects from innovation and productivity of neighboring over labor productivity and knowledge capital. The opposite, meaning a negative effect of local innovation activities within the same region is also important. In addition, the geographical spillovers of productivity and innovation are found as the greatest influence, creating externalities which generate interactions among geographically close regions.

Se analiza la presencia de cambios estructurales en las fluctuaciones cíclicas relativas del producto industrial estatal y nacional de México durante 1960-2010. Los estados pudieron haber reaccionado de forma diferente a las reformas estructurales emprendidas desde los años ochenta, modificando su ciclo económico con respecto al nacional. La metodología para investigar esta relación es el análisis estocástico de series de tiempo, ya que permite identificar los momentos de variación en media y varianza de una secuencia temporal. Los resultados señalan que es imprescindible tomar en cuenta la posibilidad de cambio estructural cuando se valora la evolución relativa de los ciclos …

Database of historic statistics of Mexican Population by federal entity 1940-2020. Own estimates for inter-censal years and projections by CONAPO for 2011 to 2020.