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

Kevin O'Rourke, Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Markus Lampe

No 11835, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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
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