Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Informal Economy in Mexico from institutional economic theory
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Institutional study of the effects of the minimum wage in the labor market
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Formal and informal institutions that discourage economic development
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The market and the work process in the face of flexibility
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Mercantilism and informality as causes of lag Latin American
Profile
Professor Oscar Enrique Martínez Lopez is an economist graduated from the Escuela Superior de Economía of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), has a master's degree in regional economics from the Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Coahuila and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM).
He is a Professor at Azcapotzalco Campus in the Department of Economics, where he teaches microeconomics both at the undergraduate and graduate level, and on the other hand, he teaches the subject of theories of value and distribution at the undergraduate level.
His research interests are in two thematic areas: 1) Informal economic activities and 2) Economic development: current theoretical debates and comparative studies. Both from the perspective of institutional economic theory. The results of these lines of research have resulted in the publication of several papers, among which the following can be mentioned:
"The financial sector in secular stagnation" in the book entitled "Stagnation and recovery: eleven years later". Coordinator Fernando Jeannot. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus, 2019.
Los efectos del salario mínimo en el mercado de trabajo en México. Una visión desde la teoría institucional" in the e-book titled "El trabajo que México necesita. Coordinated by: Octavio Maza Díaz Cortés, Juan José Morales Márquez, José Guadalupe Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Jesús Rubio Campos. Asociación Mexicana de Estudios del Trabajo, 2015.
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