Research on Colonial Institutions and Long-Run Economic Development

1. A Reassessment of Industrialization in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010, in O'Rourke, K.H. and Williamson, J.G. eds., 2017. The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery Since 1871. Oxford University Press. Chapter 13. (This version is the NBER working paper 24345, February 2018).

2. Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930, Journal of Economic History  September 2014 (with Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo)

3. Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930, Financial History Review 17-1 (April 2010) (with Andre C. Martinez Fritscher) *Winner of the Gerry Feldman Young Scholar Prize, European Association of Banking and Financial History, 2010-2011

4. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, Explorations in Economic History 49-2 (April 2012): 221-240 (with Latika Chaudhary, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan)

5. Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization, Enterprise and Society 8 - 4 (December 2007): 842-880 (With Ian Read)

Recent Economic History Papers

1. “European Immigration and Agricultural Productivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1898–1920” in Felipe Valencia Caicedo (ed.), Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean, New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2023. (with Andre Lanza and Manas Maniar).

2.  "Short‐and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil." The Economic History Review 75, no. 4 (2022): 997-1025.  (with Amanda Guimbeau and Nidhiya Menon). Previous version available as NBER Working Paper w26929 

3. A History of Insider Capitalism in Brazil (early draft), prepared for the Conference on The History of Capitalism in Latin America, April 27-28, 2018, Brasenose College, Oxford, UK.

Research on Foreign Bank Entry and the Mexican Economy

1. [Book] These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, book manuscript forthcoming in Spanish (Los Buenos Tiempos son Estos), Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, 2014. (with Stephen Haber)

2. Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007. Economia (Fall 2012) (with Stephen Haber)

3. Bank Accounting Standards in Mexico. A Layman's Guide to Recent Changes and their English Equivalence (published in Spanish as "NORMAS CONTABLES BANCARIAS EN MEXICO. Una guiade los cambios para legos diez anos despues de la crisis bancaria de 1995.") Trimestre Economico 73, no. 4 (October/December 2006): 903-926 (With Gustavo Del Angel and Stephen Haber)

4. Un nuevo indice de precios para Mexico, 1886-1929 (Transl. A New Price Index for Mexico, 1886-1929) Trimestre Economico 67-1 (January-March, 2000): 47-91 (With Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato)