Exports and economic growth in Mexico, 2007-2014: a panel cointegration approach
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Abstract
Mexican economy has experienced a significant growth in exports as a result of the increasing economic integration between Mexico and USA. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the role of exports in the economic growth of Mexico in order to determine whether the expansion in exports has created dynamic effects on the overall growth of Mexican economy. The methodology applied consists of a panel cointegration model that estimated the relationship between exports and gdp growth of the Mexican economy at the state level using data of exports and gdp from the Bank of Economic Information of the Mexican Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics. The results show positive but weak effects of exports on Mexico’s regional economic growth.
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Saikkonen, P. (1992). Estimation and Testing of Cointegrated Systems by an Autoregressive Approximation. In: Econometric Theory, Vol. 8, No. 1, March, p. 1-27.
Sala-i-Martin, X. (1996). The Classical Approach to Convergence Analysis. In: The Economic Journal, Vol. 106, No. 437, p.1019-1036.
Sengupta, J. and España, J. (1994). Exports and economic growth in Asian NICs: an econometric analysis for Korea. In: Applied Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 342-357.
Stock, J. and Watson, M. (1993). A Simple Estimator of Cointegrating Vectors in Higher-Order Integrated Systems. In: Econometrica, Vol. 61, No. 4, p. 783-820.
Thornton, J. (1996). Cointegration, causality and export-led growth in Mexico, 1895-1992. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 50, No. 3, March, p. 413-416
Tyler, W. (1981). Growth and export expansion in developing countries: Some empirical evidence. In: Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 121-130.
Yao, S. (2006). On economic growth, fdi and exports in China. In: Applied Economics, Vol. 38, No. 3, p. 339–351.
