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Data From: Short-Term Household Economic Stress Effects On Retail Activity In El Paso, Texas, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Patricia Arellano-Olague
Data From: Short-Term Household Economic Stress Effects On Retail Activity In El Paso, Texas, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Patricia Arellano-Olague
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Data From: Commercial Bank And Currency Bureau Exchange Rate Sell-Buy Spreads In A Northern Mexico Metropolitan Economy, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Francisco J. Pallares
Data From: Commercial Bank And Currency Bureau Exchange Rate Sell-Buy Spreads In A Northern Mexico Metropolitan Economy, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Francisco J. Pallares
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Commercial banks and currency kiosk bureaus provide exchange services throughout Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a large metropolitan economy located on the border with the United States. This study employs newspaper data to examine how the bank and kiosk sell-buy spreads are affected by fluctuations in the total number of northbound border crossers, variations in bilateral peso per dollar exchange rate, and the yield differential between 90-day Certificados de Tesorería (Mexico CETES) and 90-day U.S. Treasury Bills. The sample is comprised of monthly frequency data from January 2009 through June 2016. Parameter estimation is carried out using a GLS ARMAX procedure. Empirical …
Data From: Municipal Water Consumption And Urban Economic Growth In El Paso, Daniel J. Pastor, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr.
Data From: Municipal Water Consumption And Urban Economic Growth In El Paso, Daniel J. Pastor, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr.
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This study investigates the nexus between municipal water consumption and economic growth for El Paso, Texas. Located in the semi-arid southwestern United States, El Paso water consumption has been the subject of prior economic studies. However, the relationship between water consumption and economic growth has not been previously analyzed for El Paso or any other metropolitan economies in the region. Empirical results indicate that municipal water usage and real personal income are integrated of order one, but are not co-integrated. Given that, a vector autoregression model is estimated and a Granger causality test is performed. Estimation results show unidirectional causation …