He has been visiting professor at Stanford University (1998-1999), the Universidad Carlos III at Madrid (1996), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1994), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (1990 and 1993) among other academic centers.
He is author of A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1989. The Spanish translation was published as Historia de la deuda externa de América Latina. Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1989.
Editor of over a dozen books in English and Spanish on Mexican and Latin American economic history.
Coeditors: Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006, ISBN: WS0822337533.
Coeditors: Carlos Marichal y
Mario Cerutti, La banca regional en
México 1870-1930, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica / El Colegio de
México, 2003, 350 p. ISBN: 968-16-6824-3.
Editor, México y las Conferencias Panamericanas, 1889-1938, Antecedentes de la globalización, México, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 2002, 233 p. ISBN: 9688106658.
Coeditors: Carlos Marichal y
Daniela Marino, De colonia a nación: la transición fiscal en México, 1750-1860",
México, El Colegio de México, 2001, 279 p. ISBN: 9681209893.
Marichal has published over fifty
articles in academic journals and over thirty chapters in scholarly books. He
has been founder and past president (200-2004) of the Asociación Mexicana de
Historia Económica, which groups 180 professors in the field, nationally and
internationally. He received a John
Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 1994/95. He is member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, nivel
III. At present and until 2008 he is an
elected member of the Governing Board
(Junta de Gobierno) of El Colegio de
México.