The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows
- Barry Eichengreen, D. Irwin
- Economics
- 1 May 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…
Learning-by-Doing Spillovers in the Semiconductor Industry
The semiconductor industry is often cited as a "strategic" industry in part because important learning-by-doing spillovers may justify special industrial policies. Documenting the precise nature of…
Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century
- D. Irwin, Marko Terviö
- Economics
- 1 June 2000
Efforts to estimate the effects of international trade on a country's real income have been hampered by the failure to account for the endogeneity of trade. Frankel and Romer recently use a country's…
Trade blocs, currency blocs and the reorientation of world trade in the 1930s
- Barry Eichengreen, D. Irwin
- Economics
- 1 February 1995
The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Papers in Honor of Jagdish Bhagwati
- R. Feenstra, G. Grossman, D. Irwin
- Economics
- 1996
This collection of papers by former students and colleagues celebrates the profound impact that Jagdish Bhagwati has had on the field of international economics over the past three decades. Bhagwati,…
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Early Foreign Trade Doctrines11Ch. 2The English Mercantilist Literature26Ch. 3The Emergence of Free Trade Thought45Ch. 4Physiocracy and Moral…
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment
- D. Irwin
- EconomicsReview of Economics and Statistics
- 1 March 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. To what extent can this collapse of trade be attributed to the tariff itself…
Long-run trends in world trade and income
- D. Irwin
- Economics, HistoryWorld Trade Review
- 1 March 2002
This paper examines the statistical relationship between world trade and world income (GDP) over three different epochs: the pre-World War I era (1870–1913), the interwar era (1920–1938), and the…
Free Trade under Fire
- D. Irwin
- Economics
- 1 March 2002
Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of…
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