Research fields

  • Economic History
  • Public Finances
  • State Capacity
  • Trade

Selected publications

  • Sabaté-Domingo, O. & Peres-Cajías, J. A. 2025. The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues. Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change. Economic History Review.
  • Vom Hau, M., Peres-Cajías, J. A. & Soifer, H. 2023. No taxation without informational foundation. On the role of legibility in tax State development. Journal of Institutional Econmics.
  • Peres-Cajías, J. A., Torregrosa-Hetland, S. & Ducoing, C. 2022. Resource Abundance and Public Finances in five peripheral economies. Resources Policy, 76.
  • Kehoe, T., Machicado, C. G. & Peres-Cajías, J. A. 2021. The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960-2017, in Kehoe, T. & Nicolini, J.P (eds.), A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Ducoing, C & Peres-Cajías, José Alejandro (eds.). 2021. Natural Resources and Divergence. A Comparison of Andean and Nordic Trajectories. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave.
  • Branisa, B., Peres-Cajías, J. A. & Caspa, N. 2020. The Biological Statndard of Living in La Paz (Bolivia), 1880s-1920s: persistent stagnation and inequality., Economics and Human Biology, 37.