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A Foresight Analysis of Border Economies of the United States and Mexico
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto; Canas, Jesus (Arte Público Press, 2020-06-15)The economic relation between the US and Mexico represent one of the biggest economic zones in the world with international trade of goods and services between these countries reaching 616 billion dollars. These economies ... -
An Analysis of Optimal Tax Revenue Sharing for Mexico
Ponce Rodríguez, Raul Alberto (2022-04-01)We develop an analysis that identifies the characteristics of an optimal system of shared tax collection and intergovernmental transfers. Mathematical optimization is used to find the level of taxes and intergovernmental ... -
An Analysis of the Supply of Open Government Data
Ponce, Alan (2020-10-29)An index of the release of open government data published in 2016 by the Open Knowledge Foundation shows that there is significant variability in the country’s supply of this public good. What explains these cross-country ... -
An Analysis of the Supply of Open Government Data
Ponce, Alan (2020-10-29)An index of the release of open government data, published in 2016 by the Open Knowledge Foundation, shows that there is significant variability in the country’s supply of this public good. What explains these cross-country ... -
Campaign contributions and local public goods in a federation
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2018-07-01)I develop a voting model of decentralized provision of local public goods (LPGs) with campaign contributions. I compare an economy with and without campaign contributions: in the former economy, local govern- ments do not ... -
Decentralization and Subnational Politics in North America
Ponce Rodríguez, Raul Alberto (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2021-10-01)This chapter reviews the relationship between subnational politics and decentralization in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. There is a significant contrast in fiscal and political institutions implemented in these ... -
Fiscal Institutions and the Size and Inter-Regional Distribution of Public Redistribution
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2018-05)Fiscal institutions, which are responsible for the delegation of tax and spending powers among different tiers of governments, are important determinants of the size and efficiency of public redistribution. In this paper ... -
Public Campaign Finance, Vote Buying and Parties´ Policuies on Government Spending
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2018-12-27)We study whether public campaign finance creates incentives for parties to adopt a moderate public spending policy (which maximizes the welfare of a majority of voters) or a polarized spending policy (which maximizes the ... -
Regional Heterogeneity of Preferences and Intergovernmental Transfers
Ponce Rodríguez, Raul Alberto (2021-02-25)We develop a model with optimal shares of inter-governmental transfers, and we apply a simulation analysis of our model for the case of Mexico. The main outcomes of this paper are: first, we provide exact estimates of ... -
Regional Heterogeneity of Preferences and Intergovernmental Transfers
Ponce Rodríguez, Raul Alberto (2021-03-10)We develop a model with optimal shares of intergovernmental transfers, and we apply a simulation analysis of our model for the case of Mexico. The main outcomes of this paper are as follows: First, we provide optimal shares ... -
Remittances and the Size and Composition of Government Spending
Ponce Rodríguez, Raul Alberto (2023-09-25)Objective. We study the effect of remittances on the size and composition of public spending. Methodology. An optimization technique is used to develop a dynamic theoretical model and a simulation analysis. Results. It ... -
Rethinking the Political Economy of Decentralization: How Elections and Parties Shape the Provision of Local Public Goods
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2018-03-07)As more and more of the world’s states devolve power and resources to sub-national governments, decentralization has emerged as one of the most important global trends of the new century. Yet, there is still no consensus ... -
Sistemas electorales y su influencia en el diseño de la política ambiental
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2020-09-30)Se presenta el desarrollo de un análisis comparativo del impacto de los sistemas electorales mayoritarios y de representación proporcional en una política de impuestos que busca reducir la contaminación. Los resultados ... -
The politics of fiscal federalism: Building a stronger decentralization theorem
Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl Alberto (2020-09-24)We explore how party structures can condition the benefits of decentralization in modern democracies. In particular, we study the interaction of two political institutions: democratic (de)centralization (whether a country ...