Download This PaperInternational Trade and Finance Under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30
40 Pages Posted: 2 Oct 2006 Last revised: 10 Oct 2022
Date Written: September 2006
Abstract
Do international trade and finance flow together? In theory, trade and finance can be substitutes or complements, so the matter must be resolved empirically. We study trade and financial flows from the United Kingdom from 1870 to 1913 and the United States in the interwar years. Trade and finance are robustly correlated, even after allowing for simultaneity. Evidence from the British Empire casts doubt on the idea that trade is a punishment device in the event of a default.
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Taylor, Alan M. and Wilson, Janine, International Trade and Finance Under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30 (September 2006). NBER Working Paper No. w12543, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=932900
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