IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nax/conyad/v61y2016i4p762-776.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Openness and Mexico's subnational governments size: Evidence from a panel of Mexican states

Author

Listed:
  • René Cabral

    (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México)

Abstract

We examine the relation between government size and economic openness employing a panel of the 32 Mexican states between 1996 and 2006. Making use of two alternative measures of capital and labor openness and employing alternative econometric specifications, we first find systematic positive effects of our openness measures on the size of states’ total government spending. Thereafter, we focus on three subcategories of spending associated with social welfare: education, health and poverty alleviation. We find FDI flows are not statistically relevant determinants of social spending, but labor openness has a significant and greater impact on some of the aforementioned categories than on total spending.

Suggested Citation

  • René Cabral, 2016. "Openness and Mexico's subnational governments size: Evidence from a panel of Mexican states," Contaduría y Administración, Accounting and Management, vol. 61(4), pages 762-776, Octubre-D.
    • Handle: RePEc:nax:conyad:v:61:y:2016:i:4:p:762-776
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cya.unam.mx/index.php/cya/article/view/1207
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ahmet Tekin & İbrahim Tuğrul Çınar & Ersin Nail Sağdıç & Fazlı Yıldız, 2023. "Trade Openness and Sustainable Government Size: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-17, August.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Capital inflows; Migration; Globalization; Government size; Panel data methods; Mexico;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nax:conyad:v:61:y:2016:i:4:p:762-776. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Alberto García-Narvaez (Technical Editor) (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fcunamx.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.