Publications:

Bucheli, M. & Sáenz, L.F. (2024). Caffeinated Memories: The Creation of Historical Narratives as Public Goods in the Colombian Coffee Industry. Business History, 66(5), 1259-1283, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2108801 

Bucheli, M., Ciravenga, L. & Sáenz, L.F. (2023). The Octopus that Shrank: A Historical Analysis of How Multinationals Address Policy and Contractual Uncertainty in a Global Value Chain. Strategic Management Journal, 44(13), 3289--3323, doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3537

Parente, S.L., Sáenz, L.F. & Seim, A. (2022). Income, Education and Democracy. Journal of Economic Growth, 27, 193–233, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09203-7 

L.F. Sáenz. (2022). Time-Varying Capital Intensities and the Hump-Shaped Evolution of Economic Activity in Manufacturing. Journal of Macroeconomics, 73, 103429, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2022.103429.  Online Appendix.

Bucheli, M. & Sáenz, L.F. (2014). Export Protectionism and the Great Depression: Multinational Corporations, Domestic Elite, and Export Policies in Colombia. In Paulo Drinot and Alan Knight (Eds.), The Great Depression in Latin America (pp. 129-159). Durham: Duke University Press.

Working Papers:

Europe Falling Behind: Structural Transformation and Services' Productivity Differences Between Europe and the U.S. (with Cesare Buiatti and Joao Duarte). Revise and resubmit (second round); Journal of International Economics.

Regulation, Taxation, and Economic Development (with John McDermott). Submitted.

The Ricardian Effect: Where Capital Replaces Labor. Evidence from Colombia.

Sovereign Debt Crises with Incomplete Information (with Cesare Buiatti).

Selected Work in Progress:

Late Industrialization, the Bourgeoisie, and the Closing Window of Democratic Opportunity (with Stephen Parente and Anna Seim).

Jobless Industrialization (with Laura Alfaro,  Marcela Eslava and Martí Mestieri).

The Global Industrial Revolution (with Robert E Lucas Jr).

Closing the Agricultural Productivity Gap (with Juliana Helo).

Developmentalism and State Autonomy (with Marcelo Bucheli and Luis Fernando Medina).