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AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
The field of agriculture and resource economics has changed dramatically during the last 20 years. Today the analytical tools developed in this field are integral part of energy and environmental policy, economic development, food policy and infrastructure programs. Hence the research work in this area is very interdisciplinary, tackling conceptual and theoretical problems with a heavy load of empirical work. This empirical work has yielded reliable data sets on several economic, environmental, physical and biological variables aggregated in geographically referenced information systems. Researches within this area conduct policy-relevant research at the local, regional and national levels on issues as energy, agriculture, forestry and resource policy and economics.
CENTERS AND SPECIAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS
DEVELOPMENT
The research on Development at CIDE addresses a wide variety of problems at Macro and Micro levels and represents one of the most important subjects of research among departments within the institution. Research focuses in topics as determinants of economic growth, migration, technological and institutional innovations, the political economy of policy-making, poverty and inequality, health and education, household livelihood strategies, community development and local forms of governance, cultural norms and institutions, as well as issues related to gender and ethnicity.
Research on this area use a variety of approaches from rigorous economic modeling to the use of advanced econometric techniques. Some professors within this area have developed a large amount of field work resulting in important data bases used to test relevant hypothesis and derive recommendations for government agencies, development agencies and non-governmental organizations.
ECONOMIC HISTORY
The area of Economic History is one of the most active ones within the CIDE’s Economic Department. Its aim is to develop quality research under rigorous methodological frameworks as well as to innovate in teaching strategies such as the tutorial system. The long term objective of the group of research forming this area is to promote Economic History as a key tool either to interpret Economic theory as well as a framework for decision making in important economic topics. Research is focused on History of Mexican corporations, Mexico’s Long Term Economic Structure and the study of the Financial System in the XX century.
ECONOMIC THEORY
This area of research is particularly important for the CIDE’s department of Economics under the perspective that every kind of economic research, whether abstract or applied, and any economic policy recommendation are based on economic theory. Substantial work within this area is focused on modeling economic and social phenomena, either from observing the state of nature or from experimental methods. There is a strong effort from the faculty who work in economic theory to have serious research and teaching interests in one or more applied fields so the strong emphasis of the empirical work at CIDE’s economic department gains from the theoretical perspective. Theoretical research at CIDE is focused in studying markets and economic institutions as well as statistical and analytical tools
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, REGULATION AND LAW
This area is dedicated mainly to faculty and research in industrial organization and regulation. The projects around this area provide for interaction and mutual learning among people at regulated firms and government agencies providing in most of the cases recommendations and training for Mexican regulatory authorities for policy decision-making. In addition, the relationship between CIDE and Regulatory agencies such as Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Competition Commission and Federal Institute for Access to Information provides a wide spectrum of topics to study from the pure economic perspective, either theoretical or empirical, to an interdisciplinary scope.
MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCE
This area has a long tradition at CIDE’s economic department. Research focus mainly on domestic and international issues related to the study of growth, unemployment, inflation, budget deficits and surpluses, exchange rates and stock market fluctuations. The group of researchers in this area keeps track of the nation’s main economic indicators and provides a forecast for most of them. Such a forecast and economic outlook is widely referred among the academics and the media. The group heavily relies on "microfoundations" in neoclassical microeconomic theory, so there is much interaction between the Macro group and other fields particularly economic theory, public finance and development.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS
This area of research is mostly concentrated on Public Finance and tax policy issues tackling important topics such as the efficiency of budget distribution, evaluation of tax collection systems and national accounting. Another important part of the faculty advocated to this area of research is dedicated to innovative research on labor markets and social programs issues, specifically those related to social welfare, health and public goods provision. Faculty in this area is very active academically and as public voices of analysis about important policy issues. The development of specific an important nation wide surveys to study program’s impacts or household livelihood strategies has been a trade mark of this important group of research.
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