Programme and Papers
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Programme Conference [updated May 10th]
THURSDAY MAY 13th - MORNING
Latin American Tariff Policy from Belle Époque to Great Depression
Chair - Antonio Tena
Graciela Márquez Colín
- From fiscal revenue to industrial promotion: tariffs in Mexico, 1870-1916
Sandra Kuntz Ficker
- Mexico’s Tariff Policy in the 1920s: Was it fiscal or protectionist? [updated April 28th]
José Alejandro Peres Cajias
- Average tariff in Latin America poor countries: the Bolivian case (1900-1951) [updated May 10th]
The Great Depression and After
Chair - Solomos Solomou
Karl Stern
- Implementation of Non-Tariff Trade Measures in the Republic of Estonia in the 1930s [updated May 10th]
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Joan R. Rosés and Isabel Sanz Villarroya
- Stabilization and Growth under Dictatorship: The experience of Franco’s Spain
Douglas A. Irwin (co-author Barry Eichengreen)
- The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?
THURSDAY MAY 13th – AFTERNOON
19th Century Europe and Its Fringes: Open or Closed?
Chair – Douglas Irwin
Antonio Tena and Felipe Tâmega Fernandes
- How much trade liberalization was there in the world before and after Cobden-Chevalier?
Marcela Sabaté, Carmen Fillat and Ana Belén Gracia
- The protectionist backlash in the First Globalization. The trade-off between tariffs, exchange rates and transport costs in Spain (1870-1913)
Zafer Toprak
- Capitalism, Dependency and Free Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire
FRIDAY MAY 14th - MORNING
Impact: Labor Markets, Industrialization and Growth
Chair – Jeffrey Williamson
Concha Betrán and Mª Ángeles Pons
- Labour Market Response to Globalisation: Spain, 1880-1913 [updated April 7th]
Moritz Schularick and Solomos Solomou
- Trade and Economic Growth: Historical Evidence
Markus Lampe and Paul R. Sharp
- Heterogeneity in the tariff-growth experience?
Pablo Astorga
- Measuring openness and explaining economic growth in Latin America during the XXth century
FRIDAY MAY 14th - AFTERNOON
The Political Economy of Tariffs
Chair – Giovanni Federico
Jeffrey Williamson (co-author: Michael A. Clemens)
- Open Dragon, Closed Jaguar: Endogenous Tariffs in Asia and Latin America 1870-1940
John K. Wilson (co-author: Martin Shanahan)
- Tariff Protection Colonial Victoria: Evidence of Lobbying?
Lucia Coppolaro
- The political economy of tariff reduction in Western Europe (1947-1967): between multilateralism and regionalism