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Frontiers in Latin American Political Economy

A Conference of the Social Science History Institute
Stanford University

JANUARY 18-19, 2002

SIEPR Conference Room A, Landau Economics Building



Schedule and Papers

Contact:

Scott Wilson
saw@stanford.edu
(650) 723-1453

CONFERENCE GOALS

The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars and policy makers who are working at the frontiers of the New Political Economy of Latin America in order to advance the field both substantively and methodologically. That is, we seek papers that employ theory and the systematic use of evidence to provide original insights into Latin America's polity and economy.

It is our intention to hold this conference as an ongoing annual event, and to thereby create the kind of working groups that have long sustained methodological innovation in other social science fields (the NBER, for example, runs a series of annual summer institutes targeted at various subfields of the discipline of economics). Our expectation is therefore to develop an informal network of scholars who are pushing the frontiers of the discipline, and that this group of scholars will participate over the long term--sometimes as paper presenters, sometimes as discussants, sometimes as participants.

FRIDAY - JANUARY 18, 2001

8:45 AM	Conference participants picked up at Sheraton Palo Alto
9:00-9:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:30-9:45 AM	Introduction and Opening Remarks Stephen Haber (Political Science, History, and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
9:45-10:45 AM	James Robinson (Political Science and Economics, UC-Berkeley), "Land and Power" Discussant: Noel Maurer (Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)
10:45-11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM	William Summerhill (History, UCLA), “Party and Policy in Imperial Brazil” (Figures) Discussant: Cláudio Gonçalves Couto (Political Science, PUC—São Paulo)
12:00-1:15 PM	Lunch
1:15-2:15 PM	Scott Desposato (Political Science, University of Arizona), “The Impact of Federalism on National Political Parties in Brazil” Discussant: David Samuels (Political Science, University of Minnesota)
2:15-3:15 PM	John Londregan (Political Science and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton), “Common Versus Civil Law” Discussant: Tridib Sharma (Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)
3:15-3:30 PM	Coffee
3:30-4:30 PM	Francisco Monaldi (Political Science, Stanford University),"Sunk-Cost, Institutions, and Commitment: Foreign Investment in the Venezuelan Oil Industry" Discussant: Luis Bértola (Economics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
7:00 PM	Conference Dinner: Il Fornaio (520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto)

SATURDAY - JANUARY 19, 2002

8:45 AM	Conference participants picked up at Sheraton Palo Alto
9:00-9:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:30 AM	David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota,"Pork-Barreling is not Credit-Claiming or Advertising: Campaign Finance and the Sources of the Personal Vote in Brazil" Discussant: Barbara Geddes (Political Science, UCLA)
10:30-10:45 AM	Coffee
10:45-11:45 AM	Alan Dye (Economics, Barnard College), “How Brinkmanship Saved Chadbourne: Credibility and the International Sugar Agreement of 1931” Discussant: Chris Woodruff (Economics, International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC-San Diego)
11:45 AM- 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM	Alan Taylor (Economics, UC-Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera (Economics, Universidad Torcuato di Tella),"Internal Versus External Convertibility and Emerging-Market Crises: lessons from Argentine History" Discussant: Barry Weingast (Political Science and Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
2:00-3:00 PM	Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (Political Science, Stanford University), Federico Estevez (Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), and Beatriz Magaloni-Kerpel (Political Science, Stanford), “A Portfolio Diversification Model of Electoral Investment” (Appendix) Discussant: Aaron Tornell (Economics, UCLA)
3:00-3:15 PM	Coffee
3:15-4:15 PM	Stephen Haber (Political Science, History, and the Hoover Institution, Stanford), Noel Maurer (Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), and Armando Razo (Political Science, Stanford), “When Institutions Don’t Matter: The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Oil Industry, 1901-1929.” (Tables) Discussant: Phil Hoffman (Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology)

This conference was made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation