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Trade liberalization and regional productivity growth: Some lessons from Mexico's Northern Border manufacturing after 20 years

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  • Adrián de León Arias

    (Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCEA)

  • Irving Joel Llamosas Rosas

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The analysis of productivity performance of the Mexican Northern Border offers an interesting case study for that objective. This is because it combines mobile growth factors due to regional reallocation of economic activity and, on the other hand, the fact that factors that are considered immobile in the literature such as education, infrastructure and specialization were initially localised in Central Mexico. We show that, throughout this period, in the Northern Border the accumulation of immobile factors and the efficiency in its advantage have been determining factors in its economic growth.

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  • Adrián de León Arias & Irving Joel Llamosas Rosas, 2016. "Trade liberalization and regional productivity growth: Some lessons from Mexico's Northern Border manufacturing after 20 years," Revista ESPE - Ensayos sobre Política Económica, Banco de la Republica de Colombia, vol. 34(79), pages 40-50, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bdr:ensayo:v:34:y:2016:i:79:p:40-50
    DOI: 10.1016/j.espe.2016.02.001
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    1. Jaime A. Prudencio‐Vázquez & Esteban Fernandez Marquez & Fernando Rubiera Morollón, 2022. "Productivity and agglomeration economies in the manufacturing of the metropolitan areas of Mexico, 1998–2018," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(5), pages 1188-1200, October.

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    Keywords

    Trade liberalization; Economic growth; Mexico; New economic geography; Endogenous growth models;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics

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