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1.

Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

NBER Working Paper No. w7195
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 04 Aug 1999 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2022
Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Airbus Versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market

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Airbus Versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market

NBER Working Paper No. w8648
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2022
Douglas A. Irwin and Nina Pavcnik
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Airbus Versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Jun 2003
Douglas A. Irwin and Nina Pavcnik
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Trade policy, aircraft industry

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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot-Hawley

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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot-Hawley

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Aug 1999
Randall Kroszner and Douglas A. Irwin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot-Hawley

Posted: 11 Aug 1999
Randall Kroszner and Douglas A. Irwin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited

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The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Sep 2000
Douglas A. Irwin and Peter Temin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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International trade, tariff, U.S. History, cotton

The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w7825
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin and Peter Temin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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The Gatt's Starting Point: Tariff Levels Circa 1947

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The Gatt's Starting Point: Tariff Levels Circa 1947

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7649
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2018
Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin
Peterson Institute for International Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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International Trade and Trade Rules, Armed Conflict, Rules of Origin, Trade Policy, Trade and Multilateral Issues, Trade and Services

The Gatt's Starting Point: Tariff Levels Circa 1947

NBER Working Paper No. w21782
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2023
Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin
Peterson Institute for International Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The GATT's Starting Point: Tariff Levels Circa 1947

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10979
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin
Peterson Institute for International Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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GATT, tariffs, trade agreements, trade liberalization

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Did Late Nineteenth Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w6835
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Feb 1999 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment

NBER Working Paper No. w5509
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Sep 1999 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w4745
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 01 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

IMF Working Paper No. 05/31
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Unfair competition, import remedies, dumping, fair trade laws

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The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?

NBER Working Paper No. w15142
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 18 May 2023
Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin
University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

NBER Working Paper No. w5565
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Feb 1997 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin
University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Esprit de Currency

Finance and Development, June 2011, pp. 30-33, 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 15 Jun 2011
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows

NBER Working Paper No. w12160
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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From Smoot-Hawley to Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Changing the Course of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1930s

NBER Working Paper No. w5895
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Did France Cause the Great Depression?

NBER Working Paper No. w16350
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America

NBER Working Paper No. w7639
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 May 2000 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Trade Blocs, Currency Blocs and the Disintegration of World Trade in the 1930s

NBER Working Paper No. w4445
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin
University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel's Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard

NBER Working Paper No. w17597
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century?

NBER Working Paper No. w8751
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w7745
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin and Marko Terviö
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Aalto University
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High Tech R&D Subsidies: Estimating the Effects of Sematech

NBER Working Paper No. w4974
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2022
Douglas A. Irwin and Peter J. Klenow
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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The Welfare Cost of Autarky: Evidence from the Jeffersonian Trade Embargo, 1807-1809

NBER Working Paper No. w8692
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Nixon Shock after Forty Years: the Import Surcharge Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w17749
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

NBER Working Paper No. w6112
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2022
Randall Kroszner and Douglas A. Irwin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

NBER Working Paper No. w6112
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2010
Randall Kroszner and Douglas A. Irwin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Gatt's Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe

NBER Working Paper No. w4944
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

NBER Working Paper No. w5510
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Dec 1998 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022
Randall Kroszner and Douglas A. Irwin
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age

NBER Working Paper No. w12162
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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New Estimates of the Average Tariff of the United States, 1790-1820

NBER Working Paper No. w9616
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization

NBER Working Paper No. w9944
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin and Joseph H. Davis
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and The Vanguard Group
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Causing Problems? The WTO Review of Causation and Injury Attribution in U.S. Section 201 Cases

NBER Working Paper No. w9815
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of the "Great Tariff Debate of 1888"

NBER Working Paper No. w6239
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures"

NBER Working Paper No. w9943
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Interpreting the Tariff-Growth Correlation of the Late Nineteenth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w8739
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w10364
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Stephen N. Broadberry and Douglas A. Irwin
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Adam Smith's "Tolerable Administration of Justice" and the Wealth of Nations

NBER Working Paper No. w20636
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade after the Civil War?

NBER Working Paper No. w7640
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 May 2000 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods?

NBER Working Paper No. w7638
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Changes in U.S. Tariffs: Prices or Policies?

NBER Working Paper No. w5665
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jan 1997 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests

NBER Working Paper No. w12161
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 May 2006 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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International Economic Policy: Was There a Bush Doctrine?

NBER Working Paper No. w13831
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin
University of California, Berkeley and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w10582
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Industry or Class Cleavages Over Trade Policy? Evidence from the Britishgeneral Election of 1923

NBER Working Paper No. w5170
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds Over Early U.S. Trade Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w15144
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961

NBER Working Paper No. w13450
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

NBER Working Paper No. w13451
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022
Joseph H. Davis and Douglas A. Irwin
The Vanguard Group and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports

NBER Working Paper No. w8689
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?

NBER Working Paper No. w7641
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 May 2000 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2022
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Missing Bretton Woods Debate Over Flexible Exchange Rates

NBER Working Paper No. w23037
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38

NBER Working Paper No. w17595
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w17598
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Douglas A. Irwin and Kevin O'Rourke
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and University of Oxford
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Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

NBER Working Paper No. w20635
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Douglas A. Irwin
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Labor Productivity in the Us and the UK During the 19th Century

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Oct 2004
Stephen N. Broadberry and Douglas A. Irwin
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Labor productivity, sectoral disaggregation, per capita income, international comparison