Dr. Vizcarra came to the University of Vermont in 2003. She received a B.A. in economics and the equivalent of a J.D. degree in law (egresada de licentiatura) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and completed her Ph.D. degree in economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. Her current research agenda focuses on the role of natural resources and institutions in Latin American economic development.
Associate Professor of Economics
Publications
Selected Publications
Book
- "Deuda y Compromisos Creibles en America Latina. El Endeudamiento Externo Peruano entre la Independencia y la Posguerra con Chile" (Debt and Credible Comitments in Latin America. Peruvian Sovereign Debt from Independence to the War of the Pacific). Banco central de Reserva del Peru and Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; Lima-Peru, 2017.
Journal Articles
- “Resource Endowments, Agency Problems, and Monetary Outcomes in two American Colonies, 1600-1700” (with Jane Knodell). Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (Revista de Historia Económica), forthcoming.
- “Resource Endowments and the Problem of Small Change: Insights from two American Mints, 1600-1700” (with Jane Knodell). Financial History Review, vol. 28, issue 3, pp. 344-363, Dec. 2021.
- "Military Conquest and Sovereign Debt: Chile, Peru and the London Bond Market, 1876-1890" (with Kirsten Wandschneider and Richard Sicotte). Cliometrica, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 293-319, October 2010.
- "War and Foreign Debt Settlement in Early Republican Spanish America." (with Richard Sicotte), Revista de Historia Economica (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History), no. 2, Otono 2009, pp. 247-289, Ano XXVII.
- "Guano, Credible Commitments and Sovereign Debt Repayment in Nineteenth-Century Peru," The Journal of Economic History, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 358-387, June 2009.
- "The Fiscal Impact of the War of the Pacific," (with Richard Sicotte and Kirsten Wandschneider), Cliometrica vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 97-121, June 2009.
- "Bourbon Instervention in the Peruvian Tobacco Industry, 1752-1813." Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 39, pp. 567-593, August 2007.
Work in Progress
- Book manuscript “Managing Money on the Periphery of Empire. Resource Endowments, Institutions, and Monetary Outcomes in the Americas, 1600-1800” (with Jane Knodell); under contract with Columbia University Press.
- “Resource Abundance, Technological Change, and Commodity Money in Colonial Peru, 1570-1800.”

Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Law and economics, institutional economics, development economics, and Latin American economic history.
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Contact
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Phone:
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Office Location:
Old Mill Room 342
Office Hours:
Fall 2022: Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 to 2:30 in person and by appointment