Independence and trade: new evidence from French colonial trade data

Emmanuelle Lavallée and Julie Lochard
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Emmanuelle Lavallée: LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have receivedan increasing attention. This paper investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.Thanks to an original dataset including data on pre-independence bilateraltrade we obtain more accurate results. We also show that former Frenchcolonies in Sub-Saharan Africa exhibit distinctive post-colonial trade patternsas compared to other former French colonies.

Keywords: Trade; French Empire; Decolonization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in ETSG 2012 Fourteenth Annual Conference, 2012, Leuven, Belgium

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