“…There is, indeed, substantial research attempting to account for the behavior of productivity and output growth in Mexico after NAFTA. See, for instance,Gutiérrez, 2005;Montes and Santamaría, 2007;Amoroso et al, 2008;Varella and Cabral, 2009;Hanson, 2010;Kehoe and Ruhl, 2010;De León and Parra, 2011;Cabral and Mollick, 2011;López- Córdova, 2002;Salgado and Bernal, 2007;Ito, 2010;Verhoogen, 2012;López-Córdova, 2012;De Hoyos and Iacovone, 2013;Weisbrot et al, 2014).…”