External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979-2007

Robert A. Blecker ()

World Development, 2009, vol. 37, issue 7, pages 1274-1284

Abstract: Summary This article finds that shocks to net financial inflows, world oil prices, the US growth rate, and the lagged real exchange rate explain most of the fluctuations in Mexico's annual growth since 1979. The article also estimates how the effects of these external constraints have changed since Mexico's liberalization policies of the late 1980s and the formation of NAFTA in 1994. Estimates of an investment function and other tests show that growth drives investment but not conversely, in the short run. Investment is driven mainly by oil prices and the accelerator effect; foreign direct investment has no significant impact.

Keywords: Latin; America; Mexico; external; shocks; economic; growth; investment; financial; inflows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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