Research
Journal articles

1. Meza, F., S. Pratap and C. Urrutia (2020), Credit and Investment Distortions: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing, forthcoming in Economics Letters, 197.

 

2. Meza, F., S. Pratap and C. Urrutia (2019), Credit, Misallocation and Productivity Growth: A Disaggregated Analysis, Review of Economic Dynamics, 34, pp. 61-86.

 

3. Fernandez, A. and F. Meza (2015), Informal employment and business cycles in emerging economies: The case of Mexico, Review of Economic Dynamics, 18(2), pp. 381-405.

 

4. 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. Prepared for special issue on Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Latin America at its Bicentennial Celebration. [Translated to Chinese in Comparative Studies, Vol. 60, Beijing: China CITIC Press. Translated to Spanish as Crecimiento Rapido Seguido por Estancamiento: Mexico (1950-2010), in El Trimestre Economico, LXXX (2), 237-280.]

 

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

 

6. 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.

 

7. 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.

 

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

 

9. 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.

 

 

Book chapter

The Monetary and Fiscal History of Mexico 1960-2017

Forthcoming in A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017 (link to project) to be published in 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press. Edited by Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini

Working paper, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago

Comments by Alejandro Werner, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund

Qualitative data

Quantitative data available in project site under The Case of Mexico

Online appendix

 

 

Working papers

Meza, F. (2020), Forecasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on the Mexican Economy, Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 48, pp. 210-225.

Previously available as Nota de Investigacion, Centro Covid.19, ITAM, septiembre 2020.