Arbeitspapier

The anatomy of a trade collapse: The UK, 1929-33

A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The decline was particularly great for automobiles and industrial supplies; it occurred largely along the intensive margin; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade collapses more generally? This paper uses detailed, commodityspecific information on UK imports between 1929 and 1933, to see to what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free trading trade collapse of 1929-31 with the protectionist collapse of 1931-3, to see to what extent protection, and gradual recovery from the Great Depression, mattered for UK trade patterns.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: QUCEH Working Paper Series ; No. 2018-02

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: General, International, or Comparative
Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: Europe: 1913-
Thema
Great Depression
Great Recession
trade
protectionism

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
De Bromhead, Alan
Fernihough, Alan
Lampe, Markus
O'Rourke, Kevin H.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
(wo)
Belfast
(wann)
2018

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • De Bromhead, Alan
  • Fernihough, Alan
  • Lampe, Markus
  • O'Rourke, Kevin H.
  • Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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