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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
IN LATIN AMERICA:
A CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY**
April 14-15, 2000
SIEPR Conference Room A, Landau Economics Building
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
9:00-9:15 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Stephen Haber, Director, Social Science History Institute
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Module I: Institutions, Financial Markets, and Economic Growth
Session Chair: Alberto Díaz Cayeros, UCLA and Stanford.
9:15-10:15 Ross Levine, University of Minnesota.
"Bank-, Market-, Legal Based Financial Systems: Which is Best?" (PDF)
Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, UCLA.
10:15-11:15 Noel Maurer and Tridip Sharma,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
"Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Groups in Mexico's
Early Industrialization, 1878-1913" (PDF)
Discussant: Avner Greif, Stanford.
11:15-12:15) George Clarke and Robert Cull, The World Bank
"The Politics of Bank Privatization" (PDF)
Discussant: Gerardo della Paolera,
Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina.
12:15- 1:15 Lunch
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Module II: The Historical Origins of Economic Institutions
Session Chair: Andrés Regalsky, Instituto Torcuato di Tella.
1:15- 2:15 Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James
Robinson,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC-Berkeley
"The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical
Investigation" (PDF)
Discussant: Richard Salvucci, Trinity University.
2:15-2:30 Break
2:15-3:15 Kenneth L. Sokoloff, UCLA.
"Inequality and Schooling Institutions in the Americas, 1800-1940"
(PDF)
Discussant: Carlos Newland, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
3:15 –4:15 Maite Careaga and Barry Weingast, Stanford
University
"The Fiscal Pact with the Devil: A Positive Approach to Fiscal Federalism,
Revenue Sharing, And Good Governance in Developing Countries." (PDF)
Discussant: Lee Alston, University of Illinois.
4:15 Adjourn
6:30 Conference Dinner, Il Fornaio.
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Module III: State Institutions and Economic Development
Session Chair: Stephen Haber, Stanford.
9:00- 10:00 Zephyr Frank, Illinois State University
"State Institutions and Economic Development on Brazil's Far Western
Frontier" (PDF)
Discussant: Rebecca Menes, George Mason University.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Mary Shirley, The World Bank
"The Economics and Politics of Urban Water Systems." (PDF)
Discussant: William Summerhill, Stanford and UCLA.
11:15-12:15 Maria de los Angeles Gonzalez, Princeton University
"On Elections, Democracy, and Macroeconomic Policy Cycles:
Evidence from Mexico." (PDF)
Discussant: Barbara Geddes, UCLA
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Beatriz Magaloni Kerpel, Stanford
"Political Opportunism, Macroeconomic Cycles, and Mexico's
Economic Performance, 1970-1997" (PDF)
Discussant: Jean Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA
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Module IV: Politics and Economic Growth
Session Chair: Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
2:15-3:15 Nauro Campos and Jeffrey Nugent
Center for Research and Graduate Education, Czech Republic and
University of Southern California
"Who's Afraid of Political Instability." (PDF)
Discussant: Phil Hoffman, Caltech
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel
Maurer, Stanford and ITAM
"Credible Commitments Under Political Instability: Institutional Theory
and Historical Evidence" (PDF)
Discussant: Phil Keefer, The World Bank
4:30-5:30 John Londregan, UCLA, "Problem Solving
and Partisanship, the
Double-Edged Sword of Constitutional Delegation". (PDF)
Discussant: Mariano Tommasi, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.
5:30 Adjourn
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This Conference has been made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bechtel Initiative on Global Change of the Institute for International Studies.
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