Impulso expansivo, redistributivo y industrializador : la política fiscal bajo el peronismo / Federico Grillo, Sebastián Katz y José Luis Machinea -- Política monetaria y bancaria : el Banco Central y el sistema financiero durante el primer peronismo / Laura D'Amato y Javier Ortiz Batalla --...

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia since the early twentieth century. We uncover variation across countries and over time that the literature on industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single...

This paper examines sovereign lending to Latin America and the Caribbean from 1820 to 1913. We examine four waves of capital flows where defaults were followed by a return to market access. In spite of extended default, countries kept promising high returns that attracted international investors...