Mitchener, Kris; Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2008
"Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is … very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database … of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the Age of High Imperialism, 1870-1913, to quantitatively assess the …
