Technical efficiency in the Mexican automotive industry, 1988-2008

This work evaluates the impact of productive specialization on the technical efficiency of the automotive industry in Mexico (1988-2008), using the productionpossibility frontier method on a regional scale and considering its regional localization. To this end, an index of regional speciali...

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Autores: Díaz González, Eliseo, López Zepeda, Jairo César, Garduño Rivera, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
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Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/68192
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Palabra clave:Industria automotriz
especialización productiva
eficiencia técnica
clústeres automotrices
fronteras estocásticas
automotive industry
productive specialization
technical efficiency
automotive clusters
stochastic frontier
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Sumario:This work evaluates the impact of productive specialization on the technical efficiency of the automotive industry in Mexico (1988-2008), using the productionpossibility frontier method on a regional scale and considering its regional localization. To this end, an index of regional specialization in said sector was calculated, in addition to a technical efficiency index for the automotive industry using the stochastic frontier model (Battese and Coelli, 1995). The findings that were obtained suggest that specialization has a positive impact on productive efficiency in the units of analysis, and further, demonstrate that education levels and the localization of automotive plants in the northern and central regions of the country contribute to decreasing levels of productive inefficiency.