When Britain turned inward: Protection and the shift towards Empire in interwar Britain

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Markus Lampe

No _152, Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: trade policy; interwar period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 N74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-13
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