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2008-04 External shocks, structural change, and economic growth in Mexico 1979–2007
This paper finds that shocks to net financial inflows, world oil prices, the U.S. growth rate, and the lagged real exchange rate explain most of the fluctuations in Mexico’s annual growth since 1979. The paper also estimates how the effects of these external constraints have changed since Mexico’s liberalization policies of the late 1980s and the formation of NAFTA in 1994. Estimates of an investment function and other tests show that growth drives investment but not conversely, in the short run. Investment is driven mainly by oil prices and the accelerator effect; foreign direct investment has no significant impact.
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Department of Economics, American UniversityLanguage
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Working Paper No. 2008-04. 34 pages.Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/5008Usage metrics
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