Research
Journal articles

Kehoe, T.J. and F. Meza (2011), “Catch-up Growth Followed by Stagnation: Mexico, 1950–2010,” Latin American Journal of Economics, 48(2), 227-268. Special issue on “Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Latin America at its Bicentennial Celebration.”

Meza, F. and C. Urrutia (2011), “Financial Liberalization, Structural Change, and Real Exchange Rate Appreciations,” Journal of International Economics, 85(2), 317-328.

Benjamin, D. and F. Meza (2009), “Total factor productivity and labor reallocation: the case of the Korean 1997 crisis,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 9: Issue 1 (Advances), Article 31.

Winner of the 2009 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists, The Berkeley Electronic Press.

Appendices

Desmet, K., F. Meza and J.A. Rojas (2008), “Foreign direct investment and spillovers: gradualism may be better,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 41(3), 926-953.

Meza, F. (2008), “Financial crisis, fiscal policy and the 1995 GDP contraction in Mexico,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 40(6), 1239-1261.

Meza, F. and E. Quintin (2007), “Factor utilization and the real impact of financial crises,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 7: Issue 1 (Advances), Article 33.

Computational and data appendices

Other publications

Meza, F. and E. Quintin (2005), “Financial Crises: Still a Mystery,” Southwest Economy, Issue 5, September/October, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Submitted

Labor, Output and Consumption in Business Cycle Models of Emerging Economies

Joint work with Andres Fernandez, Universidad de los Andes

Work in progress
Three Stages of Mexico’s Monetary and Fiscal History: Growth with Low inflation, Fiscal Expansion, and Reforms

Joint work with Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado and Ignacio Trigueros-Legarreta, ITAM

Prepared for “The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America 1960-2005”, project organized by Timothy J. Kehoe, Juan Pablo Nicolini and Thomas J. Sargent

Emerging market business cycles, TFP, and capital utilization