Geography, Transportation, and Country Boundaries in British and Spanish America, (with J. Hough), 2008, in From Vice to Viceroys: multiple actors of the colonial world, (Universidad de San Francisco Quito).

Work in Progress:

The (non) effect of natural resource dependence on capital accumulation in Latin America (with Luisa Blanco), under review at the Journal of Development Economics.

Explaining the Rise of the Left in Latin America (with Luisa Blanco), under review at the Latin American Research Review.

Agriculture in Tropical Climates: Is Africa Different? (with Lord Andzie Quainoo).

Real Appreciation, Exchange Rate Predictability, & Output Growth  in a Sample of Developing Countries  (with R.Cermeño and K.Grier).  

Building a State and a Market: The Spanish and English Legacy in the U.S. and Mexico (with Jerry Hough), under review at Cambridge
University Press.

Explaining the Rise of the Left in Latin America, Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Ontario, October 2010.

The (non) effects of natural resource dependence on capital accumulation in Latin America , Department of Economics, West Virginia University, April 2010, Public Choice Meetings, March 2010, Monterey, CA, and the University of Oklahoma, Fall 2010.

The Effect of Natural Resource Dependence on Human and Physical Capital in Latin America, Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, June 10-14, 2009.

Elections, Exchange Rates and Reform, Department of Economics, Clemson University, April 17th, 2009.

The Effect of Natural Resource Dependence on Human and Physical Capital in Latin America, Public Choice Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.

Elections, Exchange Rates, & Central Bank Reform in Latin America, Public Choice meetings, San Antonio, TX, March 2008.

Long Live Democracy: The Determinants of Political Instability in Latin America, LACEA & LAMES joint meetings, Bogotá, Colombia, November 2007.

Political business cycles and central bank independence in a panel of developing countries, LACEA & LAMES joint meetings, ITAM, Mexico City, November 2006.

Only Income Diverges: A Neo-Classical Anomaly, Department of Political Science, Duke University, February 2006.

Political business cycles and central bank independence in a panel of developing countries, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma, March 2004.

The Interaction of Human and Physical Capital Accumulation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Department of Political Science, Duke University, February 2004.

Political business cycles and central bank independence in a panel of developing countries, Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, November 2003.

On the Real Effects of Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in Mexico, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Meetings, Puebla, Mexico, November 2003.

Real Appreciation and Exchange Rate Predictability in 14 developing countries, Latin American meetings of the Econometric Society, Panama City, Panama, August 2003.

The relationship between human and physical capital in Sub-Saharan Africa, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, January 2002.

On the interaction of human and physical capital in Latin America, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Meetings, Montevideo, Uruguay, October 2001.

The spillover effects of investment & education in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington D.C., November 2000.

Toothless tigers? East Asian economic performance from 1960-1990, University of Oklahoma, November 2000, Department of Economics.

Policy uncertainty and the behavior of the real exchange rate in Latin America & East Asia , Public Choice Society Meetings, New Orleans, Spring 1999, and at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) in Santiago Chile, Oct.1999.

Politics & the accumulation of physical and human capital in Latin America, presented at the University of Oklahoma, Feb.1999, at the European Public Choice Meetings, Lisbon, April 1999, at CIDE, April 1999, and at the Southern Economic Meetings, Nov. 1999.

Absolute but temporary power: the economic effects of the Mexican sexenio, presented at CIDE, Jan.1998 and at the Public Choice Society Meetings, New Orleans, Spring, 1998.

Economic growth and development in post-colonial Africa, a cross-country study of former British & French colonies, Public Choice Meetings, Houston, Spring 1996.

Colonial legacies & economic growth, Public Choice Meetings, Long Beach, Spring 1995.

The effect of religion on economic development: a cross-national study of 63 former colonies, University of New Orleans, Fall 1995.