Werner Baer

Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics

Research

Recent Books:

The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development, Seventh Edition. Lynne Rienner, 2014.

The Regional Impact of National Policies: The Case of Brazil. Edited by Werner Baer. Edward Elgar, 2012.

The Economics of Argentina and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Werner Baer and David Fleischer. Edward Elgar, 2011.

Equity and Distortion in Regional Resource Allocation in Brazil. Edited by Werner Baer and Geoffrey Hewings.  New York: The Haworth Press, 2007.

 

Recent Papers:

Mercosul: Its Successes and Failures,” (with Peri Silva), Latin American Business Review, Forthcoming.

“Market Integration without Policy Integration,” (with E. Amann), Latin American Business Review, Forthcoming.

Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: The Latin American Effect,” (with Paulo Henrique Vaz), Latin American Economic Review, February 2014.

The Economy of Portugal and the European Union: From High Growth Prospects to the Debt Crisis,” (with Daniel A. Dias and Joao B. Duarte), Review of Economics and Finance, November 2013.

The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil and India: A Comparative Analysis,” (with Rahul Sirohi), Kyklos, Volume 66, Number 1 (February 2013), 46-62.

“The Impact of Privatization on Brazil’s Regions,” (with Edmund Amann) in The Regional Impact of National Policies, (edited by Werner Baer), 2012.

“Brazil: A new economic miracle?” (with E. Amann) in Brazil Journal of Political Economy, July-September 2012.

“Argentina’s Default and the lack of dire consequences,” (with Diego Margot and Gabriel Montes-Rojas), in Brazilian Journal of Applied Economics, January-March 2011.

“Argentina’s Default and the Lack of Dire Consequences,” (with Diego Margot and Gabriel Montes Rojas), Economia Aplicada, 2011.

Energy, Bio Fuels and Development: Comparing Brazil and the United States, edited with Edmund Amann and Donald V. Coes, (Routledge: 2011). Within volume: Edmund Amann and Werner Baer, “Energy and income distribution in Brazil’s Development Process.”

“Finance, Technology and Multinationals from the Periphery: An Analysis of the Latin American Experience.” (with E. Amann) World Economics, April 2010.

“The Roots of Brazil’s Inequality and Attempts to Overcome Them,” (with E. Amann), in Brazil under Lula, edited by J. Love and W. Baer (Palgrave Press, 2009).

“Fiscal Policy and Equity: The Dilemmas Facing Brazil’s Labour Government” (with E. Amann) in The Political Economy of the Public Budget in the Americas, edited by Diego Sanchez-Ancochea and Iwan Morgan. (London: Institute of the Americas, 2008).

“From privatization to re-nationalization: What went wrong with privatizations in Argentina?” (with Gabriel Montes Rojas), Oxford Development Studies, September 2008.

“Tax Burden, Government Expenditures and Income Distribution in Brazil (with A. Galvao), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, June 2008.

“Neo-Liberalism and Market Concentration in Brazil: The Emergence of a Contradiction?” (with E. Amann), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, June 2008.

“Economic Orthodoxy Versus Social Development? The Dilemmas Facing Brazil’s Labor Government”, (with Edmund Amann), Oxford Development Studies,  2006, Vol. 34, Issue 2.

“The Impact of Politics on Fiscal Behavior: The Case of Brazil,” (with D. Coes), Applied Economics, January-March, 2006.

“Growth, Efficiency and Equity: The Impact of Agribusiness and Land Reform in Brazil,” (with L.Abbey, andM. Filizzola), in Latin American Business Review. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2006.

“The Regulation of development and development of regulation”, co-editor (with Paul Cook), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 45, Issues 2&3, 2005.

“From the Developmental to the Regulatory State: The Transformation of the Government’s Impact on the Brazilian Economy,” (with E. Amann), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 25, issues 2-3, 2005.

“The Brazilian Economic System Through U.S. Lenses,” (with R. Guimarães), in Envisioning Brazil, edited by Marshall Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida, (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).

“Review Article on ‘After the Washington Consensus’,” in The World Economy, May 2004.

“The economy of Portugal within the European Union: 1990-2002,” (with Antonio Nogueira Leite), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 5, Winter 2003.

Anchors Away: The Cost and Benefits of Brazil’s Devaluation,” (with Edmund Amann), World Development (2003), Volume 31 Number 6.

“The privatization experience in Brazil”, International Handbook on Privatization, Edited by David Parker & David Saal, 2003.

“The Achievements and Failures of Argentina's Neo-liberal Economic Policies”, (with Pedro Elosegui and Andrés Gallo), Oxford Development Studies  (2002), Volume: 30 Number: 1 Page: 63 – 85.

“Economic integration without policy coordination: the case of Mercosur,” Emerging Markets Review Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 September 2002, Pages 269-291.

Privatization and Equity in Brazil and Russia” (with James T. Bang), Kyklos, Volume 55, Number 4 (November 2002), 495 - 522

“Neoliberalism and its consequences in Brazil,” (with Edmund Amann), Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, Part 4, November 2002, pp. 945-960.

“National sovereignty and consumer sovereignty: Some consequences of Brazil’s economic opening,” (with D. Coes), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 42, No. 5, Winter 2002, pp. 853-864.