RT Generic
T1 Colonos, central factories, and renegotiation:
T1 A Fixed Effects Analysis of the Adoption of New Technologies in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1899-1929
A1 Dye, Alan
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This paper focuses on the relationship between technical andinstitutional changes in Cuba a leader in the use of continuousprocesstechnologies being applied to cane sugar manufacture inthe first three decades of the twentieth century. Using a fixedeffects model of the sugar manufacturer's decision to invest innew technologies, we show that a change in institutional factorshad an impact on the adoption of the new technologies. Theresults show that differences in cane contracting arrangementsaffected the ease with which mills adopted new technologies.These differences were based on historical factors in theevolution of the cane farming institution in Cuba that affectedwhether the cane lands were the property of the farmer or themill. This distinction created differences in the cane farmers'bargaining positions in the renegotiation of contracts with themill, and it resulted in variation in the long-run costs ofprocuring cane at different mills.
SN 2340-5031
YR 1992
FD 1992-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/2885
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/2885
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 19 may. 2024