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

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

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Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000

pre- World War I, the interwar, and the post-war periods, this paper finds that the Frankel-Romer result is robust to …

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry - 1996

This paper investigates the theory and evidence that history plays a role in shaping the direction of international trade. Because there are reasons to anticipate a positive correlation between the predominant direction of trade flows in the past and membership in preferential arrangements in...

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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011

shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …

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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994

in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five …

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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995

Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...

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The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2006

In 1901, six Australian states joined together in political and economic union, creating an internal free trade area and adopting a common external tariff. This paper investigates the impact of federation on Australia's internal and international trade flows by studying changes in the "border...

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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff : A Quantitative Assessment

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1996

In the two years after the imposition of the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930, the volume of U.S. imports fell over 40 percent. To what extent can this collapse of trade be attributed to the tariff itself versus other factors such as declining income or foreign retaliation? Partial and general...

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The Nixon Shock after Forty Years : The Import Surcharge Revisited

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2012

On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon closed the gold window and imposed a 10 percent surcharge on all dutiable imports in an effort to force other countries to revalue their currencies against the dollar. The import surcharge was lifted four months later after the Smithsonian agreement...

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

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

The Great Depression was marked by a severe outbreak of protectionist trade policies. But contrary to the presumption that all countries scrambled to raise trade barriers, there was substantial cross-country variation in the movement to protectionism. Specifically, countries that remained on the...

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