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LACLIO Conference (Preliminary Program)*
November 17-18, 2000
Stanford University
Landau Economics Building, SIEPR Conference Room A
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
8:30-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45 AM Session I: Nineteenth-Century Argentina
William Summerhill (University of California, Los Angeles), "Productivity Growth in the Argentine Railroad Sector, 1857-1914."
Maria Alejandra Irigoin (Universidad Torcuato di Tella), "Linking Political Events and Economic Uncertainty: An Examination of the Volatility in the Buenos Aires Paper Peso Rate of Exchange, 1826-1866."
11:00 AM-12:45 PM Session II: The Logic of the Colonial Economy
Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and James A. Robinson (University of California, Berkeley), "Are Endowments Fate?"
Adolfo Meisel Roca (Banco de la República-Colombia), "Subsidy-Led Growth: Cartagena de Indias and the Situado, 1751-1810."
12:45-2:00 PM Lunch
2:00-4:30 PM Session III: Income and Wealth
Lyman Johnson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), "The Pampa Transformed: Measuring Economic Growth and Wealth Inequality in the Rosas Period."
Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República), "Income Distribution and the Kuznets Curve: Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay Since the 1870s."
Moramay Lopez Alonso (Stanford University), "An Anthropometric Approach to the Measurement of Living Standards in Mexico (1870-1950)."
7:30 PM Conference Dinner (Il Fornaio, Palo Alto)
9:00 AM-12:00 PM Session IV: The Porfirian Economy
Ted Beatty (University of Notre Dame), "Domestic Origins of Technological Change in Late Nineteenth Century Mexico."
Elisabeth Huybens (The World Bank), Astrid Luce Jordan (Union Fenosa), and Sangeeta Pratap (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), "Financial Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Mexico."
Rafael Dobado (Universidad Complutense), "Regional Convergence of Agrarian Commodities Prices in Porfirian Mexico: A Comparison with the United States and Spain."
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-3:45 PM Session V: Foreign Trade
Alan Dye (Columbia University) and Richard Sicotte (University of Calgary), "Legislative Shocks to the U.S.-Cuban Sugar Trade: The Seismic Information in Stock Prices."
Carlos Newland (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) and Andrés Alberto Gallo (University of Illinois), "Globalización al Interior de los Imperios Mercantiles: Peru, Chile, y España, 1660-1810."
Gabriel Porcile (UFPR), Hermes Higachi (UEPG), and Mauricio Bittencourt (UFPR), "Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth in Brazil: A Cointegration Test of the Thirlwall´s Law."
* This conference was made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
