Carolina Rodríguez Zamora

Banco de México | Banxico · Dirección de Análisis Macroeconómico

We study the implications for the optimal taxation problem when allowing the possibility of substitution between market goods and time. We find that the higher the elasticity of substitution between market goods and time in a given home production activity, the lower the tax rate on such market goods should be. We advance existing literature in two...

We study the implications for the optimal taxation problem when allowing the possibility of substitution between market goods and time. We find that the higher the elasticity of substitution between market goods and time in a given home production activity, the lower the tax rate on such market goods should be. We advance existing literature in two...

This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in 1997 on state level health outcomes. It renders two main results. First, the magnitude of transfers from the federal government to states failed to take into account state-specific needs; instead, transfers were mainly determined...

As a result of the current crisis, analyzing the linkages between the financial sector, the economic activity, and the housing market have become increasingly relevant. Making use of a novel Mexican housing-market database, this article estimates a semi-parametric hazard model to study how the market duration of a home in sale is affected by the pe...