Research

Mejia, J., Diccionario biográfico y genealógico de la élite antioqueña y viejocaldense. Segunda mitad del siglo XIX y primera del XX. Pereira, Colombia: Sello Editorial Alma Mater, 2012. [Book]

Mejia, J., “Social networks and elite entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the industrialization of Antioquia,” Journal of Economic History, 2024. [Paper] | Featured in El Espectador | El Colombiano | Blu Radio | W Radio | La República | Yahoo Finance | Forbes | Bloomberg | The Financial Times 

Ferrali, R. & Mejia, J. "Social Interactions and Contract Enforcement in the Postcolonial Arab World. Evidence from the Industrial Elite of Morocco, 1956-1982," Economic History of Developing Regions, 2024. [Paper]

Mejia, J. & Parra-Montoya, J., “Currency in Colombia, 1850-1923,” Economic History Research, 18 (1), 2022. [Paper] | Featured in El Colombiano | Forbes 

Mejia, J., “The Economics of the Manila Galleon,” Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, 15 (1), 2022. [Paper] | Featured in El Colombiano | Forbes 

Mejia, J., “The Evolution of Economic History since 1950: From Cliometrics to Cliodynamics,” Tiempo & Economia, 2(2), 79-103, 2015. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “Reconstruccion de PIB regionales en Colombia (1800-2015): Una revisión crítica de las fuentes y los métodos,” Economía y Sociedad, 30, 2016. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “La población del territorio colombiano al momento de la Conquista: Una revisión crítica de estudios,” Economía & Región, 9(2), 7-46, 2015. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “Crecimiento económico de largo plazo en Antioquia, Colombia: Estimación del PIB. 1800-1913,” Cuadernos de Economía, 34(66), 507-544, 2015. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “Vínculos interregionales en la economía colombiana del siglo XIX: El empresariado del Caribe en el interior del país, 1840-1880,” Economía & Región, 8(2), 2014. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “El auge económico antioqueño del siglo XIX desde un enfoque de desarrollo económico local,” Ensayos de Economía, 45(2), 2014. [Paper]

Mejia, J. “Modernizing elites in Latin America: social-network evidence from the emergence of banking in Antioquia.” In Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Ed.) Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic (and Political) History of Latin America and the Caribbean. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave / Macmillan, 2023. [Paper]

Mejia, J. “Estabilidad financiera durante la banca libre en Antioquia. Medición del riesgo sistémico a través de las redes de propiedad”. In Carlos Dávila (Ed.) Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, forthcoming. [Paper]

Martínez, S. & Mejia, J. “Café y ciudad: El despegue urbano de Pereira.” In Sebastián Martínez & Adriana María Suárez Mayorga (Ed.) Repensando la Historia Urbana. Reflexiones Históricas en Torno a la Ciudad Colombiana. Pereira, Colombia: Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira y Universidad Icesi, 2020. [Paper] | Featured in Forbes 

Mejia, W., & Mejia, J. “Participación política de colombianos en Colombia, Estados Unidos, España y Reino Unido.” In Cristina Escobar & Milena Gómez Kopp (Ed.) El voto en el exterior: estudio comparativo de las elecciones colombianas legislativas y presidenciales. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2015. [Paper]

Mejia, J., “Market research history in Colombia. Entrepreneurial trajectory of Napoleón Franco,” Business History Review, 56(2), 2015.

• Workshop in Economic History at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden). 

• Economics Seminar at the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark). 

• Seminar at UPB (Medellin, Colombia). 

• Seminar at UNAL (Medellin, Colombia). 

• Seminar at Universidad de Medellin (Medellin, Colombia). 

• Seminar at Universidad EIA (Medellin, Colombia). 

• Foro de Presidentes (Bogota, Colombia). 

• Historical Political Science Workshop at Stanford University (Stanford, US). 

• ASREC 2023 at Harvard University (Cambridge, US).

• Economic History Seminar at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, US)

• Faculty Seminar at the University of Connecticut (Connecticut, US—online)

• Stanford Political Theory Workshop (Stanford, USA)

• Colombian Economy Lecture at Universidad de Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia—online)

• Green is Now 2022 (Bogota, Colombia)

• Third Annual Mountain West Economic History Conference at Utah State University (Logan, US)

• Ethics in Society Workshop at Stanford University (Stanford, US)

• LSE-Stanford Conference on Long-run Development in Latin America (CDMX, Mexico)

• Central Bank of Colombia Seminar (Cartagena, Colombia)

• Economic History Colloquium at Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia)

• Seminar at Politicas Publicas (Bogota, Colombia—online)

• Ibero-American Economic History Webinar Economic History (Barcelona, Spain—online)

• CLAS Virtual Lecture (Stanford, US)

• Economic History Seminar at Stanford University (Stanford, US)

• DEEP Seminar (Seoul, Korea—online)

• Historical Network Research Conference (Luxembourg—online)

• Seminar at Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Bucaramanga, Colombia—online)

• Financial History Network Seminar (online)

• Past, Present, and Future of Historical Economics at NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• Economic History Seminar at Vienna University of Economics and Business-University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria—online)

• LACEA Meetings (Bogota, Colombia—online)

• EPOG+ Seminar at University of Paris (Paris, France—online)

• MES Lunch Seminar at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, US). 

• Economic History Breakfast Seminar at UC Davis (Davis, US).  

• Economic History Seminar at Lund University (Lund, Sweden)

• Entrepreneurship Seminar at INSEAD Singapore (Singapore)

• Applied Microeconomics Seminar at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)

• Australian Cliometrics Workshop at UNSW (Sydney, Australia)

• RSE Seminar at The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)

• Historical Political Economy Conference at NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• ADRES Conference (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France)

• LEAP Seminar at Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

• Workshop on the Frontiers of Network Science at NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• Growth Lab Lunch Seminar at Brown University (Providence, US)

• CEDE Seminar at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Faculty Seminar at CESA (Bogotá, Colombia)

• CID Seminar at Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia)

• GHE-ACHEE Seminar at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Networks Group Meeting at NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• The Tasaamuh Film Festival at Manarat Al Saadiyat (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• Workshop on African Economic History at Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

• XVIIIth World Economic History Congress at MIT (Boston, US)

• LSE-Stanford Conference on Long-run Development in Latin America (London, UK)

• NYUAD Research Conference (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• Market Institutions and Economic History Colloquium at UNAM (Mexico D.F., Mexico)

• Workshop on the Frontiers of Network Science at NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

• CEDE Seminar at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• GHE-ACHEE Seminar at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Faculty Seminar U. ICESI (Cali, Colombia)

• Faculty Seminar at CESA (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Methods on Historical Research at UTP (Pereira, Colombia)

• Regional History Seminar at Central Bank of Colombia (Pereira, Colombia)

• Lunch Seminar at Econometria Consultores (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Lunch Seminar at National University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Applied Seminar at Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

• Lunch Seminar at Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Innovation Seminar at Bordeaux University (Bordeaux, France)

• Lunch Seminar at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History-Luxemburg University (Luxemburg city, Luxemburg)

• Theory Discussion Group at Bordeaux University (Bordeaux, France)

• Economic History Seminar at Vienna University of Economics and Business-University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)

• Economic History Graduate Seminar at Barcelona University (Barcelona, Spain)

• Historical Network Research Congress (Turku, Finland)

• Graduate Students Seminar at Bordeaux University (Bordeaux, France)

• Economic and Social History Graduate Workshop (Oxford, UK)

• IV Workshop: New Economic Historians of Latin America (Madrid, Spain)

• Economic History and Cliometrics Lab Conference (Santiago de Chile, Chile)

• Faculty Seminar (Universidad del Rosario, Bogota)

• Stanford Network Forum (Stanford, USA)

• Social Networks Discussion Group (Stanford, USA)

• Digital History Workshop (Stanford, USA)

• 1st LACEA Economic History Network Meeting (Medellín, Colombia)

• Central Bank of Colombia Seminar (Medellín, Colombia)

• SER Seminar at University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)

• Social Science Seminar at National University (Medellín, Colombia)

• XVIIth World Economic History Congress (Kyoto, Japan)

• 1st History of Economics Summer School in Latin America (Bogotá, Colombia)

• CEDE Seminar at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia)

• Colombian Economic History Association Seminar (Bogotá, Colombia). 

• 4th Congress of Colombian Economy at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia).

• 4th Latin American Congress of Economic History (Bogotá, Colombia).

• 4th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School (Montevideo, Uruguay). 

• IV Simposio Colombiano de Historia Regional y Local (Manizales, Colombia).

• 4th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School (Montevideo, Uruguay). 

• IV Simposio Colombiano de Historia Regional y Local (Manizales, Colombia).

• 1st Colombian Meeting of Economic History (Bogotá, Colombia). 

• Central Bank of Colombia Seminar (Medellín, Colombia). 

• 3rd Congress of Colombian Economy at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia).

• 2nd Congress of Colombian Economy at Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia). 

• 2nd Latin American Congress of Economic History (México D.F., México).

• VI Economics Student Forum at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia).

• XXIII National Congress of Economics students (Barranquilla, Colombia).