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Latin American Economies: History and Globalization

Sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, the UCLA Center for Economic History, and the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico City). April 24 and 25.

Friday, April 24, 2009
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
6275 Bunche
History Conference Room
Los Angeles, CA United States

 Latin American Economies:  History and Globalization

Sponsored by the UCLA Latin America Institute, the UCLA Center for Economic History, and CIDE

Co-organizers:  David Mayer (CIDE and UCLA) and William Summerhill (UCLA) 

This conference brings together scholars working on various aspects of Latin America’s economic history, ranging from vast international linkages to locally and historically specific conditions.

The preliminary program of papers includes: 

Day 1, April 24th:

• “Income Distribution in the Southern Cone During the First Great Globalization Boom” Luis Bértola (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay and Universidad Carlos III, Spain) 
• “Estratos politico-eleitorais e socio-economicos do Brasil na decada de 1870” Eustaquio Reis (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brazil)
•  “Stature and Immigration in Southern Brazil (1889-1920)” Leonardo Monasterio (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)
• “Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Brazil” Renato Perim Colistete (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
• "Reestimating the Brazilian Public Debt/GDP Ratio: The State's "Fiscal Skeletons”" Ulisses Gamboa (São Paulo Commercial Association, and UCLA) and William Summerhill (UCLA), portuguese version
• “The Emergence of Education in Nineteenth-Century Colombia” Maria Teresa Ramirez (Banco de la Republica, Colombia)
• “Salarios reales en Colombia: 1834-1997” Miguel Urrutia (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
• “Sovereign debt costs and the Baring crisis, 1880-1890” Juan-Huitzi Flores (University of Geneva)

Day 2, April 25th:

• “Hot" and "cold" policymaking: the nationalization of the bank industry in Mexico in comparative perspective” Gustavo del Angel (CIDE)
• “Development and Underdevelopment: 1500 – 2000” David Mayer-Foulkes (CIDE and UCLA)
• “Political Institutions, Hydrocarbons Resources, and Economic Policy Divergence" Allyson Benton (CIDE)
• “La Reestructuracion Economica de 1982 a 1994” Enrique Cardenas (CIDE)
• "1983: Al Principio Del Camino" Carlos Bazdresch (CIDE)
• "Credit Ratings in the Presence of Bailout: The Case of Mexican Subnational Debt" Fausto Hernandez Trillo (CIDE)
• “Systematic Risk Taking and the U.S. Financial Crisis” Romain Ranciere (IMF) and Aaron Tornell (UCLA)
  
• “Political Instability and Credible Commitments: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Mexico” Aurora Gomez (CIDE)
  
• "The Social Failure of the Mexican Revolution: Redistributive Constraints under High Inequality" John Scott (CIDE)

Other participants:  Stephen Haber (Stanford), Noel Maurer (HBS) Fausto Hernandez Trillo (CIDE)

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute