When Britain Turned Inward: Protection and the Shift Towards Empire in Interwar Britain
62 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2017 Last revised: 18 Apr 2021
Date Written: February 2017
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.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
de Bromhead, Alan and Fernihough, Alan and O'Rourke, Kevin and Lampe, Markus, When Britain Turned Inward: Protection and the Shift Towards Empire in Interwar Britain (February 2017). NBER Working Paper No. w23164, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2915991
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