This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …

both domestic and international aspects of the monetary regime before World War I has since declined in its relevance At … the same time, policymakers within major nations placed more emphasis on stabilizing the real economy. In the post-World …

Despite an enormous literature that has analyzed the comparative experiences of Latin America and Asia in post-World … the two regions' tariffs before 1914; differences in the extent and structure of internal markets as well as the world …

In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We …