Reports
Discussion Papers
No.510 On the Variety of Mexico’s Export Goods
by ITO Tadashi
March 2015
ABSTRACT
This
paper
examines
the
evolution
of
the
variety
of
Mexico’s
export
goods
using
disaggregated
trade
data.
Both
the
econometric
estimation
analyses
using
the
raw
data
and
the
one
using
an
improved
version
of
Feenstra
and
Kee’s
(2004,
2007)
methodology
proposed
in
this
paper
show
that
NAFTA
membership
does
not
enhance
the
variety
of
Mexico’s
export
goods.
This
finding
contrasts
with
NAFTA’s
positive
association
with
the
increase
in
export
variety
found
in
the
literature.
Keywords:
Mexico,
NAFTA,
Export
goods
variety
JEL
classification:
F14,
F15
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