WORK IN PROGRESS

(with Esteves, R. P and Tunçer, A. C.) Domestic Public Debt in Emerging Markets from the First Financial Globalization to the Interwar: 1880-1945. FAPESP-SNSF Grant, 2024-2026.

(with Tunçer, A. C.)  Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: The Political Economy of Government-Creditor Relations in the First Age of Globalisation.

(with Sant´Anna, A. A.) Inequality and Anti-Communist Coups in Latin America.

(with Limongi, F.) Política econômica e partidária no Brasil da Nova República.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

The political economy of sovereign debt

(with Tunçer, A. C.) “Democracy, Autocracy, and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk on the Peripheries of the Global Economy, 1870-1913.” Explorations in Economic History 85 (2022), pp. 1-21. 

“Dictatorships, Coffee, and Bananas: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1871-1911,” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 3 (2022), pp. 373-404. 

“Loans of the Revolution: How did Mexico Borrow as the State Collapsed in 1912-1913?”, Economic History Review, vol. 72, no. 3 (2019), pp. 1028-1047.

“Government versus Bankers: Sovereign Debt Negotiations in Porfirian Mexico, 1888-1910”, The Journal of Economic History, vol. 75, no. 4 (2015), pp. 1030-1056.

“Rothschilds’ ‘Delicate and Difficult Task:’ Reputation, Political Instability, and the Brazilian Rescue Loans of the 1890s”, Enterprise & Society, vol. 16, no. 2 (2015), pp. 381-412.

Other topics

(with Akerman, A. and Pessoa, J. P.) “The West´s Teeth: IMF Conditionality during the Cold War", The World Economy, vol. 45, no. 7 (2022), pp. 2034-2051 (Quoted in BBC Brasil).

(with Palma, N., Papadia, A., and Pereira, T.), "Slavery and Development in Nineteenth Century Brazil", Capitalism:  A Journal of History and Economics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2021), pp. 372-426.

(with Sant´Anna, A. A.) “The Threat of Communism during the Cold War: A Constrain to Income Inequality”, Comparative Politics, vol. 52, no. 3 (2020), pp. 359-393. (Quoted in The Guardian and El Pais)

“Aderência: Liberalismo Econômico e Política Comercial Britânica em 1820-1913”, Revista de Economia Contemporânea, vol. 10, n. 3 (2006), pp. 491-516.

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

Sovereign Debt Crises and Negotiations in Brazil and Mexico, 1888-1914: Governments versus Bankers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

“Latin America”, in An Economist’s Guide in Economic History, edited by C. Colvin and M. Blum., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

“Economic Cycles in Brazil”, in Economic Cycles in BRICS, edited by S. Smirnov, A. Ozyildirim, and P. Picchetti, New York: Springer, 2018.

BOOK REVIEWS

Powned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance, by Didac Queralt, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Journal of Economic History, vol. 82, no. 4 (2022), pp. 1231-1233. 

A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017, by Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini (eds.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. EH.net (2022).

Capital e Ideologia, by Thomas Piketty. Rio de Janeiro: Intrínsecam 2020. Revista de Economia Política e História Econômica, vol. 17, no. 46 (2021), pp. 182-186. 

Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change, by Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. EH.net (2017).

The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence, by Luis Bértola and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 3 (2016), pp. 251-252.

MEDIA

"Um PT sem autocrítica poderia reeleger Bolsonaro", Latinoamerica21, Folha de S. Paulo, Clarín (Argentina), El Nacional (Venezuela), El Espectador (Colombia), 5 May, 2021.

"O que pensa o Bolsonaro ao dizer que o Brasil está quebrado?", Latinoamerica21, Folha de S. Paulo, TalCual (Venezuela), 14 January 2021.

"O populista Bolsonaro e a deterioração das contas públicas", Latinoamerica21, Folha de S. Paulo, El Mostrador (Chile), El Nacional (Venezuela), 4 December 2020.

(with Sant´Anna, A. A.), "Epidemias deixam a economia combalida desde a idade média", Folha de S. Paulo, 20 May 2020.

Ditadura não é saída para gerar desenvolvimento econômico, Ilustríssima, Folha de S. Paulo, 19 January 2020.

(with Muinhos, M. K.), "Gasto público e crescimento", Valor Econômico, 29 October 2019.

"O regime militar não foi bom para o Brasil", Estado de São Paulo, 25 April 2018.

"O fracasso do PSDB e PMDB coloca a democracia em risco", Estado de São Paulo, 5 April 2018.