Escosura, Leandro Prados de la; Sanz-Villarroya, Isabel - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 1, pp. 1-26
Argentina has slipped from being among the ten world’s richest countries by the eve of World War I to its current position close to mid-range developing countries. Why did Argentina fall behind? We employ a structural model to investigate the extent to which the enforceability of contracts and...