Roberto Bouzas

Bio

Mr. Bouzas obtained a BA in Economics at U.B.A (1975) and BA/MA in Economics from University of Cambridge (GB) (1980). Independent Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Principal Researcher for Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO/Argentina). He is a professor of Internacional Economics for the faculty of Economics at U.B.A. and also at the Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación (ISEN), at FLACSO and at Universidad de San Andrés. He has been a research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas en México (1976/83), he has also been invited to the Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro in Brazil (1983/85). At Duke University he was McWane Visiting Professor (1991) and Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University (1992), as well as Resident Fellow of Hellen Kellogg Institute for International Studies de Notre Dame University (1993).

His latest books are: Mercosur. Integración y Crecimiento (con José M. Fanelli) (Buenos Aires, Fundación OSDE, 2001), Argentina to 2010. From Economic Reform to Sustained Growth (con P.Gosis y H. Soltz), (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit, 1998), Regionalización e Integración Económica: Instituciones y Procesos Comparados, editor (Buenos Aires: Editorial Nuevohacer, 1997), Globalización y Regionalismo en las Relaciones Internacionales de Estados Unidos, editor (Buenos Aires: Editorial Nuevohacer, 1996) y Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere, (coeditor con Jaime Ros) (South Bend, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1994).

Academic Background

  • BA in Economics, U.B.A (1975)

  • BA/MA in Economics, University of Cambridge (GB) (1980)

Areas of Expertise

  • International Economics

  • Economic Development

Present Position (s)

  • Principal researcher at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO/Argentina)

Other Activities and Memberships

Previous Position (s)

Publications

Current Research Projects

  • National incentives and the shaping of regional institutions in Mercosur

  • Trade policy reform in Latin America in the nineties impact on export performance

  • Trade policy approaches the case of Argentina

  • Market access issues in US-Argentine trade relations

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