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Workshop on Market Integration, Financial Trajectories and State Building in Latin America since Colonial Times
December 10-11, 2021, Reception Room (Sala de Recepcions), Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona

Dates:

10-12-2021

Workshop on Market Integration, Financial Trajectories and State Building in Latin America since Colonial Times

University of Barcelona

December 10-11, 2021

Av. Diagonal 690-696, Faculty of Economics and Business, Reception Room (Sala de Recepcions)

Program overview

Friday, December 10

09:15 – 09:30 Welcome and opening remarks
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 3 (virtual)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:30 Session 4 (virtual)

 

Saturday, December 11

10:00 – 12:00 Session 5
12:00 Coffee/Lunch

 

Session 1 (hybrid). Taxation and social expenditure
Chair: Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

  • Matthias vom Hau, José Peres-Cajías and Hillel Soifer “The Informational Foundations of the Tax State: Latin America in Comparative Perspective”
  • Xabier García-Fuente and Sergio Espuelas “Social expenditure in Latin America during the twentieth century: A new database”

 

Session 2. Welfare state and education in the twentieth century
Chair: Marc Badia-Miró

  • Sergio Espuelas and Oriol Sabaté “Political regime and social spending in Latin America, 1940-1980”
  • María José-Fuentes “Neither God, nor Master, nor Husband: the impact of liberal reforms and feminist echoes on female education in Colombia in the first half of the twentieth century”

 

Session 3 (virtual). International trade, taxation and immigration
Chair: Sergio Espuelas

  • Eduardo Crespo and Javier Ghibaudi* “Rethinking the Great Divergence debate from international trade theory, the case of Latin America”
  • Sandra Kuntz-Ficker* “Nuevas series de comercio exterior de México, 1820-1870: aspectos metodológicos, tendencias y composición”
  • Rafael Cariello and Thales Pereira* “Fiscal crisis and the independence of Brazil, 1808-1828”
  • André Lanza* “The dreamed land across the sea: Immigration and land access in São Paulo, 1882-1920”

 

Session 4 (virtual). Colonial institutions and economic growth
Chair: José Peres-Cajías

  • Alexandre Freitas* “Beyond Market Exchange: Economic Building in the River Plate (1810-1850)”
  • Jorge M. Agüero* “Can Growth and Redistribution Reduce the Influence of Colonial Institutions? The Case of Peru’s Mining Mita”
  • Felipe Valencia* “The Colonial Origins of State Capacity”
  • Andrés Calderón* “TBA”

 

Session 5. Finance
Chair: Oriol Sabaté

  • Mario Contreras Valdez “Acreedores y crédito en la pequeña y mediana minería de plata en México, 1820- 1870.”
  • Martín L. E. Wasserman “Bonds and debts at the emergence of public credit in Buenos Aires: from the Royal Treasury to the South American Funds National Exchequer (18th-19th centuries)”
  • Alfredo Hernández Sánchez “Between Good Faith and Defiance: narratives of international finance in UNGA speeches”

 

*Participate remotely


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