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Alan Dye

	Department of Economics Barnard College Columbia University 3009 Broadway New York, NY  10027 Phone: 212-854-3868 Email:  ad245@columbia.edu	Links to course pages:	Columbia University Seminar in Economic History 2001-2002
		Intermediate Microeconomics Fall 2001
		Business Organization Spring 1999, 2002
		Topics in Economic History: Latin America in the 20th Century Spring 2002

 

Selected Publications

Book
Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production:  Technology, and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929.   Stanford University Press, 1998.

Articles
"Privately and Publicly Induced Institutional Change: Observations from Cuban Cane Contracting, 1880-1936." In Stephen Haber, ed., Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 2000.

"Factor Endowments and Contract Choice:  Why Were Cane Supply Contracts Different in Cuba and Hawaii?  1900-1929."  Advances in Agricultural Economic History (2000).

"Why Did Cuban Cane Growers Lose Autonomy?"  Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800.  Edited by John Coatsworth and Alan Taylor.  Harvard University Press, 1998.

"Avoiding Holdup:  Asset Specificity and Technical Change in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1899-1929," Journal of Economic History 54 (1994): 628-53.

"Cane Contracting and Renegotiation: A Fixed Effects Analysis of the Adoption of New  Technologies in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1899-1929," Explorations in Economic History 31 (1994): 141-75.
 

Selected Working Papers^*

"How Brinkmanship Saved Chadbourne: Strategy of Desperation in the International Sugar Agreement of 1931." Co-authored with Richard Sicotte.

"The Institutional Determinants of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff." Co-authored with Richard Sicotte. Barnard Working Paper Series #02

"Legislative Shocks to the Cuban-U.S. Sugar Trade: The Seismic Information in Stock Prices." Co-authored with Richard Sicotte. Barnard Working Paper Series #01-06

"The Political Economy of Exporting Economic Instability:  the US Sugar Tariff and the Cuban Revolution of 1933."  Co-authored with Richard Sicotte. Barnard College Working Paper Series #99-05.

"Organizational Learning and the Latifundium: The Purpose of the Colono Contract in Cuban Sugar, 1889-1929."  Barnard College Working Paper Series #98-08.

"Creating Standards for a Market:  the Emergence of Outside Contracting for Sugar Cane in Cuba, 1880-1926."

^* For copies of any of the above working papers without links, contact Alan Dye at: ad245@columbia.edu .

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