Journal Article
Mexico develops niche approach to expansion of banking services
Skelton, Edward C. (2013-01)
The new charter lowers barriers to market entry in Mexico at a time when many other countries are making the banking industry less inviting.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q1 , Pages 10-13

Journal Article
Reaching Mexico's unbanked
Skelton, Edward C. (2008)
Banks and the government have mounted a major effort to extend financial services to those without them.
Economic Letter , Volume 3

Journal Article
Did home equity restrictions help keep Texas mortgages from going underwater?
Kumar, Anil; Skelton, Edward C. (2013-07)
With relatively stable house prices in Texas, the incidence of underwater mortgages was a fraction of what occurred in hard-hit states.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 3-7

Journal Article
Mexico's new banking measures aim to increase credit, transparency
Skelton, Edward C. (2014-07)
The overhaul of Mexico?s banking laws, enacted as part of President Enrique Pea Nieto?s wideranging economic and business structural changes, is designed to increase credit to small and medium-sized businesses while enhancing regulatory oversight and transparency.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 12-16

Journal Article
Rising protectionist threat creates risks for Texas
Skelton, Edward C.; Nicholson, Michael (2009-07)
Expanding trade has brought jobs and business to Texas, but has left the state particularly vulnerable to antitrade actions. Texas would suffer greatly if the U.S. and other countries implement protectionist measures.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 10-14

Journal Article
Spotlight: Mexican financial market : new instruments, rules boost capital investment
Skelton, Edward C. (2011-07)
Mexico?s financial markets have surged since 2010, recovering from the global financial crisis and benefiting from new capital instruments and rules. Among the most prominent instruments are Certificados de Capital de Desarrollo (CKDs), or trust securities, and the country?s first real estate investment trust.> ; Additionally, modernization of Mexico?s market operations has helped drive initial public equity offerings (IPOs) and debt issuance.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 15

Journal Article
Risks mount for Eleventh District banks amid energy weakness
Skelton, Edward C.; Klemme, Kelly (2016-04)
Relatively low energy prices have slowed economic expansion and diminished prospects for Eleventh District banks. Though regional institutions outperformed their peers nationally in 2015, loan growth slowed and profitability declined, leading to a guarded outlook for 2016.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q2 , Pages 3-7

Journal Article
Spotlight: Financial services: Banking within reach of more Mexicans
Skelton, Edward C. (2010-10)
In 2008-09, Mexico was wracked by the global financial crisis, suffering its largest one-year economic contraction since at least the 1930s. But the banking sector withstood the shock and made important strides in one area--bringing previously unbanked households into the financial system. Boosting Mexico's economic development by helping small businesses fulfill their potential depends on improving access to finance and fully linking these engines of economic growth and opportunity to the formal economy.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q4 , Pages 15

Report
The Conquest of Mexican Inflation
Skelton, Edward C.; Wynne, Mark A. (2011)
From the 1970s through the mid-1990s, Mexico lurched from one crisis to another, its monetary and fiscal framework a source of instability that impeded long-term growth. By adopting best practices in central banking in the latter 1990s?granting the Banco de Mxico independence and mandating price stability as the central bank?s primary goal?Mexico began installing a framework that has proven remarkably successful.
Annual Report, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute

Journal Article
How much will the global financial storm hurt Mexico?
Quintin, Erwan; Skelton, Edward C. (2008-11)
The credibility earned by prudent policymaking over the past decade should help Mexico weather the current financial storm without devastating effects on real economic activity.
Southwest Economy , Issue Nov , Pages 10-13