Name: Swimming Against the Current: The Evolution and Challenges of the U.S.-México Border Economy
Start: 2026-03-04T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 5201 University Blvd, Student Center Ballroom, Laredo, Texas 78041

$Swimming Against the Current: The Evolution and Challenges of the U.S.-M\u00e9xico Border Economy$

Open to the public. Free of charge.
Please join us for our IBC Bank and Commerce Bank Keynote Speaker Series presentation featuring Dr. James Gerber, Senior Fellow in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at San Diego State University. Dr. Gerber will be presenting “Swimming Against the Current: The Evolution and Challenges of the U.S.-México Border Economy."
The presentation will be held in person at Texas A&M International University, Student Center Ballroom (STC 203) on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 6 p.m.
If you are unable to attend in person, this presentation will also be broadcast live via Microsoft Teams. To join online, visit https://go.tamiu.edu/gerber.
For more information, please call 956-326-2820, email [email protected], or visit https://www.tamiu.edu/cswht.

About the speaker:
Dr. James Gerber is currently a senior Fellow in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at San Diego State University, where he taught for 34 years. His research focuses on the macro-economic history of México, the U.S.-México border region, and U.S.-México relations.
In addition to his recent book, Border Economies: Cities Bridging the US-Mexico Divide Border (University of Arizona Press, 2024), he is the co-author (with Joan Anderson) of Fifty Years of Change on the US-Mexico Border (University of Texas, 2008), an economic history of financial crises, A Great Deal of Ruin: Financial Crises since 1929 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and a widely used undergraduate text, International Economics (Pearson Higher Education, 8 editions).
Recent articles in academic journals have examined measures of human development on the US-México border, the role of free trade in the promotion of economic change in México, and the impact on México of the 1907 U.S. financial crisis.