XVI RIDGE Forums | Economic History

Scientific Committee
Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes)
Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University)

Keynote Speakers
José Antonio Ocampo

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Monday, December 12, 2022

8:50-09:15
Keynote speaker Professor Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies) - Environmental Foundations of the Asian Path of Economic Development.

09:15-09:30
Introduction and game rules of the Workshop
Luís Bertola (U de la República) and Andrés Álvarez (Uniandes).

09:30-11:00
Keynote speaker - José Antonio Ocampo (Ministro de hacienda y Crédito público de Colombia – Columbia University).

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Cristian Ducoing (Lund U) - Tracing sustainability in the long run. Genuine Savings estimations 1850 – 2018.
Rafael Torres (Uniandes) - Horsemen of the Apocalypse: the Mongol Empire and the Great Divergence.

13:00-14:00
Lunch break

14:00-15:30
Federico Sanz (U de la República) - Towards a new structural measurement of transnationalization in Latin America and the world.
Andrés Irarrázaval (U de Chile) - The Fiscal Origins of Comparative Inequality levels: An Empirical and Historical Investigation.

15:30-15:45
Short Coffee Break

15:45-16:30
Daniel Seligson – The Persistence of Inequality.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

9:00-10:30
Daniel Lasso (Uniandes) - Gender height dimorphism: An approximation of the living Standards in Colombia: 1920-1990.
Jon Denton-Schneider (Clark University) - Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique.

10:30-10:45
Short Coffee Break

10:45-12:00
Verónica Pérez (Columbia U -Uniandes) - The effect of industrialization on political dynasties: Evidence from Colombian local governments.
Andrés Martignano (U of Nottingham) - Mass Migrations in Argentina: A Study on the Effects of Migrants on Electoral Outcomes.

12:00-13:30
James Torres (Uniandes) - The Mechanics of the Alcabalas: Reform, Local Bargaining, and Dwindling Taxation in Bourbon New Granada, 1750-1810.
Felipe Valencia (UCB) - Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire.

13:30-15:45
Lunch cum Football World Cup Semifinals

15:45-17:15
Xavier Durán (Uniandes) - Why (not to) Use the Wheel? A new hypothesis and evidence from the Cambao Wagon Road in the Nineteenth Century Colombian Andes.
César Huaroto (PUC Chile) - The Legacy of Resistance. Evidence from the Chilean Invasion of Peru in the XIX Century.

17:15-17:30
Closing conversation: guided by Luís Bertola.

18:00
Guided visit and cocktail at Museo del Oro