Seminario: "Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-1960: The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments"
Miércoles 16 de Abril, 17.00h.
Abstract
This article(*) investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and of relative decline of the agricultural sector.
We use a dynamic three-sector computable general equilibrium model of the period to analyze the effects of the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI), and changing factor endowments, on the structure of the economy. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture. ISI gave a substantial boost to manufacturing, but primarily at the expense of non-traded services, rather than of agriculture. View full version.
(+) Article jointly written with Dario Debowicz
Paul Segal is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex and was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His research focuses on the economics of resource-rich countries, and the macroeconomics of oil prices. He works specifically on the expenditure of resource revenues, and their impact on growth, economic development and the distribution of income.
He completed his DPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, having previously been a consultant economist at the United Nations Development Programme and a Research Fellow at Harvard University.
El seminario será dictado en inglés sin traducción simultánea.
Lugar: Campus Alcorta: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Contacto: Cecilia Lafuente, Departamento de Economía
Organiza: Departamento de Economia
Contacto: Cecilia Lafuente, Departamento de Economía
Organiza: Departamento de Economia