Omar Neme Castillo

Difusión de la innovación y comercio internacional: la relación entre México y Estados Unidos

This paper analyses the long run relation among innovation, technological diffusion and international trade, based on the ricardian specialization model of Eaton y Kortum (2007). Particularly, we apply cointegration techniques for estimating the determinants of researchers’ rate in Mexico inside the commercial relationship with United States in the period 1980-2006, and hence to establish the existence of stable relations among the considered variables. The rate at which ideas are created in United States is considerably higher than the rate in the Mexican economy. Nevertheless, researcher productivity seems higher in Mexico, although with less effectiveness for reducing costs. Considering differences in the rate of ideas’ creation between both economies which, in turn, affects researchers’ rate, we argue that Mexican economy specializes in researching inside the low and medium technology sectors.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Mexican Manufacturing Exports

The paper analyzes the effects of changes in the purchase of computer equipment and peripherals (investment in information and communication technologies – ICT) on exports by classes of Mexican manufacturing industry using data from the Annual Industrial Survey and Industrial Stan OECD data base for the period 2003–2006. The paper distinguishes among industries with high and low technology. We used a cross‐section methodology to evaluate the effect of such technologies in each year of the period. The results indicate that investment in ICT has a positive effect on manufacturing exports, particularly in industries with low technological content that can integrate ICT into their export activities.