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Presents a paper which examined the contributions of macroeconomic interventions to Argentina's recovery from the Great Depression of 1929. Contours of the Argentine Great Depression; Argentine fiscal policy; Argentine monetary policy; Qualitative evidence of regime change in contemporary reports; Use of the three-equation dynamic econometric model of exchange rates, prices and interest rates; Conclusions.

We investigate how historical patterns of primary production influenced development across local economies in Argentina. Our identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the composition of primary production induced by climatic features. We find that locations specializing in ranching had weaker linkages with other activities, higher concentration in land ownership, lower population density, and less immigration than cereal-producing areas. Over time, ranching localities continued to exhibit lower population density, and they experienced relatively sluggish industrialization. Ultimately, ranching specialization had large negative effects on long-run levels of income per capita and human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In early public land privatization, governments in New South Wales and Buenos Aires provided for de jure transfer of public lands. In New South Wales the government lost control; squatters rushed out unlawfully and seized de facto frontier claims. But in Buenos Aires privatization was accomplished by de jure transfers. Why did British settlers reject de jure transfers from a government, most able to secure property rights and rule of law, while settlers of the pampa frontier, where property-rights security was doubtful, complied with de jure transfers? We find that the revenue objective and violence on the frontier explain this puzzle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the pension policy in Argentina. It discusses some key changes in the distributional principles and outcomes of pension policy from an area where empirical research remained rather limited in spite of the substantial reform processes which have taken place in Argentina. The political relevance of pension policy means that reforms involving losses for large or influential groups tend to be applied only relatively far in the future in order to contain public resistance.

Examines long swings in British investment in Argentina in the period 1880-1914. Explanations on the inverse British patterns; How the analysis of movements of both labor and capital can be conducted.