Neighborhood effects, convergence and growth in open economies of U.S. and Mexico

Resource Information

The work Neighborhood effects, convergence and growth in open economies of U.S. and Mexico represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Neighborhood effects, convergence and growth in open economies of U.S. and Mexico

Statement of responsibility

by Eunice Patron Galeana

Creator

• Patron Galeana, Eunice, 1976-

Contributor

• Stallmann, Judith I.

Thesis advisor

• Stallmann, Judith I.

Subject

• Capital productivity -- North America
• Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Agricultural economics
• Economics -- Mexico
• Economics -- United States
• Electronic books
• Electronic bookss
• Electronic dissertations
• Labor productivity -- North America
• Sales tax -- North America
• Agricultural productivity -- North America

Genre

• Electronic bookss
• Electronic dissertations
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This dissertation consists of three papers. "Optional sales tax holidays: Which jurisdictions participate? Logit and a spatial analyses," I reviewed the literature regarding strategic interaction among jurisdictions and border effects due to tax differentials. I used a logit model to estimate whether or not Missouri cities will participate or not in the 2004 sales tax holiday. I found that cities consider their own characteristics and their neighbor's characteristics when making the decision to participate in the tax holiday. I did not find evidence of spatial autocorrelation, perhaps because other variables already contain some spatial information. "Convergence of Mexican states, 1993-2004" examines the convergence implications of the Solow (1956) neoclassical economic growth model for Mexico. There is no evidence of unconditional [beta] convergence. There is evidence of conditional [beta] convergence and its value is 2.37 percent. There were mixed results for [sigma] convergence among Mexican states. "Disparities in Productivity Growth in Mexico, 1993-2004" examines the behavior of productivity among Mexican states for 1993-2004. I investments in physical capital are negatively related to productivity, states attracting labor force have higher productivity, human capital increases productivity. States with a higher percentage of indigenous population have lower productivity than the rest of the country

Cataloging source

MUU

Degree

Ph. D.

Dissertation year

2007.

Granting institution

University of Missouri-Columbia

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• theses

Target audience

specialized