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The maquiladora's changing geography
A lack of data has limited our understanding of the distribution of maquiladora activity. Recently, Mexico's chief statistical agency provided previously unpublished information that will allow us to draw a more detailed portrait. ; We take a preliminary look at where specific maquiladora activities take place within Mexico. Then we examine changes in location since 1990, finding that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other trade pacts have been the most important factors reshaping patterns of maquiladora employment.
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Maquiladora industry: past, present and future
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Banking industry evolution along the Texas-Mexico border
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Housing market trends in El Paso
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Incubating microfinance : the Texas border experience
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Composite index: a new measure of El Paso's economy
Working Paper
Production sharing and real business cycles in a small open economy
Production sharing and vertical specialization account for a significant share of trade between developed and developing countries. The Mexican maquiladora industry provides an ideal example of production sharing in a small open economy. The typical "maquila" imports most of its inputs from and exports all its output to the United States.> ; This article tries to determine to what extent production sharing, as in the Mexican maquiladora, can serve as a transmission mechanism of business cycles in small open economies. We utilize a simple two-sector small open economy model of real business ...
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U.S., Mexico deepen economic ties
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Cyclical differences emerge in border city economies
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Workers' remittances to Mexico