Richard Sicotte
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Vermont
94 University Place
Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: 802-656-0184
Email: richard.sicotte@uvm.edu
Richard Sicotte is an assistant professor in the Department of
Economics at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
1997.
His research interests are in the fields of economic history,
industrial organization, political economy, and international
economics. He has particular interest in two distinct areas: the
economics of the ocean shipping industry, and the economic history of
Latin America, and its international economic relations.
Research
Curriculum Vitae
Published or Forthcoming Papers
“The Interwar Shocks to U.S.-Cuban Trade Relations: A View Through
Sugar Company Stock Price Data.” With Alan Dye. In Jeremy Atack
and Larry Neal, The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and
Institutions, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Passenger
Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on Trans-Atlantic Migration.”
With George Deltas and Pete Tomczak. Review of Economics and
Statistics, forthcoming.
“How Brinkmanship Saved Chadbourne: Credibility and the International
Sugar Agreement of 1931.” With Alan Dye. Explorations in
Economic History 43, no. 2 (April 2006): 223-256.
”The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution.” With Alan
Dye. Journal of Economic History 64, no. 3 (September 2004):
673-704.
“Exclusive Contracts and Market Power: Evidence from Ocean
Shipping.” With Pedro Marín. Journal of Industrial
Economics 51, no. 2 (June 2003): 193-213.
“El control de contrabando en el Perú colonial: el caso del
monopolio del tabaco, 1752-1813.” 2002. With Catalina
Vizcarra. In Carlos Contreras and Manuel Glave, editors, Estado y
Mercado en la Historia del Perú. Lima, Peru: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, 2002.
“Economic Crisis and Political Response: The Political Economy of
the Shipping Act of 1916.” Journal of Economic History 59, no. 4
(December 1999): 861-84.
“American Shipping Cartels in the Pre-World War I Era.” With
George Deltas and Konstantinos Serfes. Research in Economic
History 19 (1999): 1-38.
“U.S.-Cuban Trade Cooperation and Its Unraveling.” With Alan Dye.
Business and Economic History 28, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 19-30.
Working Papers
“Does
the Separation of Regulatory Powers Reduce the Threat of Capture?
Evidence from the U.S. Maritime Bureaucracy.” With Pedro
Marín.
“Voting
in Cartels: Theory and Evidence from Ocean Shipping.” With
César Martinelli.
“Fertilizer, Fiscal Crises and the War of the Pacific.” With
Catalina Vizcarra and Kirsten Wandschneider. New draft available
here soon.
“War and Foreign
Debt Settlement in Early Republican Spanish
America.” With Catalina Vizcarra.
“Cleansing Under the Quota: The Defense and Survival of Sugar Mills in
1930s Cuba.” With Alan Dye. New draft available here soon.
“The
Institutional Determinants of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.” With
Alan Dye.
“The
Origins
and Development of the U.S. Sugar Program, 1934-1959.”
With Alan Dye.
Teaching--Fall 2007
Economics 95 C: Globalization: Causes and Consequences
Economics 240 D: Economics of Transportation