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...

Argentina's money and banking system was hit hard by the Great Depression. The banking sector was awash with bad assets that built up in the 1920s. Gold convertibility was suspended in December 1929, even before the crisis seriously damaged the core economies. Commonly, these events are seen as...