Working Papers Series Archives

The ILAS Working Papers on Latin America are articles, research reports, position papers and various other works-in-progress by faculty, visiting scholars and other affiliates of the Institute of Latin American Studies and Columbia University.  By making this scholarship available online, we hope to serve as a resource and to create a virtual meeting place for dialogue and the development of new ideas. Discussion generated on this site helps ILAS strengthen our programming to meet the ever-evolving interests of our academic community. Working Papers can also be accessed at the Columbia University Academic Commons.

Working Papers

By Faculty, Visting Scholars, Graduate Students and other affiliates of the Institute:

• Brazil and the Transatlantic Community in the Wake of the Global Crisis
  By Thomas J. Trebat
• Peace in Colombia: Can the European Union and the US Collaborate?
  By Dorly Castañeda
• Labor Legislation and Its Adverse Impacts on Transaction Costs in Brazilian Agriculture
  By Gervásio Castro de Rezende, Léo da Rocha Ferreria, Ana Cecília Kreter
• Banking the Mexican Immigrant Population: Analysis of Profiling Variables
  By Paulina Ennis
• The FDI Recession Has Begun
  By Karl Sauvant
• Brazil, failing to turn the corner…
  By Fernando B. Sotelino
• Nature or Nurture? Factors of Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Approach
  By Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga, and Ignacio Moral-Arce
• No Entiendo: The Effects of Bilingualism on Hispanic Earnings
  By Jerónimo Cortina, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Pablo M. Pinto
• Party System Institutionalization: The Case of Chile and Why We Need to Un-Pack The Concept and its Measurement
  By Juan Pablo Luna
• Access to Information and Transparency in Mexico
  By Allan Brewer-Carias
• Venezuela 2009 Referendum on Continuous Re-Election: Constitutional Implications
  By Allan Brewer-Carias
• Political Mobilization of Latino Immigrants in American Cities and the U.S. Immigration Debate
  By Gustavo Cano
• Compliance and Ethics, a Case Study of Banco Marka
  By Ana Carolina Cabral Murphy
• Inefficiencies in Hedge Strategies at Sao Paulo Stock Exchange: A Random Coefficients Modeling Approach
  By Luiz Paulo Lopes Favero
• The Rites of Statehood: Violence and Sovereignty in Spanish America, 1789-1821 A talk by Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University) on April 16, 2009
• Economic Growth and Changes in Policies: The Role of Veto Players in Latin American and East Asian Countries
  By Jose Alexandre Ferreira Filho
• Economic Growth and Changes in Policies: The Role of Veto Players in Latin American and East Asian Countries
  By Jose Alexandre Ferreira Filho
• Democracy, Veto Players and Integration in Mercosur
  By Jose Alexandre Ferreira Filho
• BRICs, the Chinese Engine, and the Humbling of Market Fundamentalism
  By Glauco Arbix
• A Boundless Space: the Amazon and the Building of the Brazilian Empire
  By Jose Antonio Sanchez-Roman

Working Papers from Ruth Cardoso: A Tribute Conference (April 9-10, 2009)

• Principles and Conceptions of the Comunidade Solidaria Program
  By Simone de Castro Tavares Coelho
• Public Policies, Gender and the Performance of Democracy: Bringing the Family Back In
  By Guita Grin Debert
• Ruth Cardoso, A Tribute
  By Maria Tereza Fleury 
• A Tribute
  By Leona Forman
• The Contemporary Erotic Market and New Configurations of Gender and Sexuality
  By Maria Filomena Gregory
• On Ruth Correa Leite Cardoso: An Academic and Personal Statement
  By Lucio Kowarick
• Tribute
  By Celia Sakurai
• Ruth Cardoso and the Comunidade Solidaria: Coherence and Innovation
  By Helena Sampaio
• Interlucutions and Appropriations: From Social Movements to Cinematic Forms with Ruth Cordoso
  By Esther Hamburger

Working Papers from Crime, Insecurity, Fear in Mexico: Ethnographic and Policy Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Workshop (November 13 -14, 2009)

• 'De este delito por el que vengo': Historias de Vida de Policías Sentenciados por Secuestro                   
  Elena Azaola, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-México
• Urban Violence, Quality of LIfe, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain the Bias Towards Hope
  Diane Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• (In)Security and Policiing in a Marginalized Mexico City Neighborhood: Perceptions, Experiences and Practices
  Markus-Michael Muller, Freie Universitat Berlin
• Comments on “The Violence of Traffic,” Crime, Insecurity, Fear in Mexico: Ethnographic and Policy Approaches
  Mary Roldan, Hunter College, City University of New York