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List of Papers Presented
Second Meeting of the Political Economy Network
Cartagena, Colombia, April 6-8, 2000

1. Invited papers

The Colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation
-Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (MIT), James A. Robinson

The institutional foundations of public policy: Theory and the Argentine case
-Pablo Spiller (UC Berkeley) and Mariano Tommasi

2. Submitted papers that were selected through a competitive "call for papers"

Latin America and the state-market debate: Beyond stylized facts
-Carol Wise (Johns Hopkins University)

Structural reform in Latin America: Institutional constraints in the initiation, implementation, and consolidation of the reform process
-Jorge A. Schiavon (CIDE, México)

Labor market "rigidity" and the effectiveness of adjustment programs
-Alvaro Forteza (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) and Martín Rama (World Bank)

Institutions for commitment in the Brazilian regulatory system
-Bernardo Mueller (Universidade de Brasilia)

The role of wages and auditing during a crackdown on corruption in the city of Buenos Aires
-Rafael Di Tella (Harvard) and Ernesto Schargrodsky (UTDT)

What is the right level? A principal agent building block for the study of decentralization and integration
-Mariano Tommasi and Federico Weinschelbaum (U. de San Andrés)

The political economy of regional public spending and its implications for fiscal soundness, spending allocation and social services for the poor
-Fabio Sanchez (Universidad de los Andes)

Electoral rules, political systems and institutional quality
-Ugo Panizza (IADB)

Information aggregation, voter coordination and the choice of electoral rules
-Cesar Martinelli (ITAM)

Political institutions and economic outcomes
-Alejandro Gaviria, Ugo Panizza, Jessica Seddon, and Ernesto Stein (IADB).