Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez
Chapter 2: Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?
Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez
Chapter 3: Venezuela After A Century of Oil Exploitation
Osmel Manzano
Chapter 4: Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry
José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez
Chapter 5: The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Employment in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Sector 1995–2001
Omar Bello and Adriana Bermúdez
Chapter 6: Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela: 1970–2005
The Real Effects of a Financial Collapse
Matías Braun
Chapter 7: Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela
Daniel Ortega and Lant Pritchett
Chapter 8: Income Distribution and Redistribution in Venezuela
Samuel Freije
Chapter 9: Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980-2003
Dan Levy and Dean Yang
Chapter 10: Sleeping in the Bed One Makes: The Venezuelan Fiscal Policy Response to the Oil Boom
María Antonia Moreno and Cameron A. Shelton
Chapter 11: Institutional Collapse: The Rise and Decline of Democratic Governance in Venezuela
Francisco Monaldi and Michael Penfold
Chapter 12: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Venezuela
Jonathan Di John
Chapter 13: Explaining Chavismo: The Unexpected Alliance of Radical Leftists and the Military in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez
Javier Corrales
Chapter 14: Oil, Macro Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela
Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch
Chapter 15: Understanding the Collapse: Venezuela’s Experience in Cross-National Perspective
Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez
List of Contributors
Index