The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income … per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …

years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …

We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …

kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …

We use more than one century of Argentine and Mexican data to estimate the structural parameters of a small-open-economy …

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to … role of complementary investments in internal infrastructure and technology adoption in mediating the economy's response to …

This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …

The Argentine economy was transformed in the late nineteenth century by the mass migration of millions of Europeans … on the scale and structure of the Argentine economy and tries to resolve various competing hypotheses. The paper presents … a new social accounting matrix (SAM) for Argentina, and uses it to calibrate a CGE model. Both tools show promise for …

Much of Argentina's decline in relative economic performance can be attributed to deleterious conditions for capital …