In Mexico up to this day there is a debate on whether administrative judges should earn more money; or whether administrative courts should incorporate appellate jurisdiction to better guarantee accountability of the administration. The answer to these questions has not…

In a modern State administrative courts have an important task as guardians of the rule of law. Adjudicating cases where one of the parties is the state herself is a strong form of accountability. In Mexico up to this day…

This essay examines the effect of Mexico’s security strategy and security situation on public opinion. Political and policy analysts are highly divided as to the merits of the Mexican government’s war against the nation’s drug cartels, with some seeing the…

Using an original dataset of the prior career paths and ex-post political positions of 1,400 federal deputies from three legislatures (1997-2000, 2000-2003 and 2003-2006), this paper presents the first systematic study of political career choices after the democratic transition in…

How does violence affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? Most research on this question examines political violence, such as war, terrorism, or political instability. However, we know little about how criminal violence – which has wreaked havoc in…

In this paper we investigate by Monte Carlo simulations the bias, mean square error, variance and distribution of estimators for bivariate GARCH models in small samples. The data generating process is a VAR (2) for the conditional mean together with…

Drawing on four generations of poverty measurement, this paper uses panel
data from the 2002-2007 period to analyze rural poverty in Mexico. The
results show that almost three fifths of the surveyed households
experienced poverty at least once, while one…

The objetive of this article is to characterize the population between 15 and
29 years old who does not attend school and does not work (NiNi, as they
are know in Mexico). We used data from the 1990, 2000 and…

This document deals with the question of how International Organizations (IOs) influence states. Analyzing original quantitative data from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, we explore the role of IOs in the configuration of states’ interests and normative agendas,…

A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows that this theory has transcended the neoclassical paradigm and that market rationality does not govern the human development process. Instead human development is the appropriate standard for rationality. Using…