摘要:This paperfocuses on the change ofproduction at state level in Mexico for period 1970-88. The empirical section includes output per capita series for each state to identify regional cycles applying five year rates to register annual changes. This identification allows spatial economic examinations, such as amplitude, volatility and sensitivity in particular states. It also permits some inferences about spatial relations between national and regional fluctuations. First main finding is that high amplitude and volatility in oil producer states reveal the oil prices boom during the second halfthe seventies. Secondfinding is that cyclical sensitivity, registered in terms of amplitude and volatility, presents a negative relation with cycles showing high state coherence with the national cycle. Finally, this paper addresses every finding to aspects ofspatial policy in Mexico.