When Britain Turned Inward : Protection and the Shift Towards Empire in Interwar Britain

International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find that policy can explain the majority of Britain's shift towards Imperial imports in the 1930s. Trade policy mattered, a lot

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	De Bromhead, Alan
Other Persons:	Fernihough, Alan (contributor) ; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj (contributor) ; Lampe, Markus (contributor)
Publisher:	[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Protektionismus \| Protectionism \| Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| Handelsgeschichte \| History of trade \| Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen \| International economic relations \| Export \| Commonwealth-Staaten \| Commonwealth countries \| Import

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (62 p)
Series:	NBER Working Paper ; No. w23164
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 2017 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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