On the basis of a broad sample of quantitative studies in comparative politics, published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this paper offers an empirical radiography of data usage in comparative empirical research. It provides systematic information about…

This article presents a Monte Carlo EM algorithm to estimate multivariate endogenous switching regression models with censored and/or discrete responses and heteroscedastic errors. Advantages of the algorithm include: (1) it does not require numerical integration; (2) it reduces the estimation…

This work examines a crucial part of modern presidential campaigning in Mexico: candidate appearances in municipalities. It also traces the changes in presidential campaigning over the past 30 years and finds that modern campaigning does not just involve mass media…

This paper evaluates to what extent the end-of-sample problem inherent to the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter may be ameliorated when estimating the trend component of GDP. For that purpose, the filter of St-Amant and van Norden (1997) is proposed using Mexican…

This paper uses a cointegration approach to estimate the demand functions for imports and exports in Mexico. The especification of each function is derived from the model of imperfect substitute goods and are estimated using monthly data over the period…

Como una contribución al estudio del Congreso en México, este artículo se centra en la tarea legislativa a partir de cuatro indicadores: el origen de las iniciativas, su tasa de aprobación, los patrones de votación en el pleno de la…

Electoral authoritarian rulers face a potential strategic dilemma. They need to contain the uncertainty of national elections and they need to maintain a minimum of popular support. Yet, achieving the former through electoral manipulation may hurt the latter. In the…

El costo de asegurarnos que el ejercicio del gobierno corresponde con los principios de la democracia liberal debe incluir no sólo el costo de los votos y los partidos, sino también el costo de las instituciones que, en un proceso…

Nuestro objetivo es establecer una serie de hechos básicos sobre la interacción entre crecimiento poblacional, estructura de edades, entorno macroeconómico y crecimiento, habida cuenta de la heterogeneidad observada a escala mundial en estructura demográfica y niveles de desarrollo. En la…

We use data from a Maryland farm survey and a multivariate switching regression model with endogenous switching to investigate the effects of information asymmetries on conservation cost sharing contracts. Our estimations indicate that the role that asymmetries of information play…