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Trade Wars and the Slump

Foreman-Peck, James S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9826-5725, Hughes Hallett, Andrew and Ma, Yue 2007. Trade Wars and the Slump. European Review of Economic History 11 (1) , pp. 73-98. 10.1017/S1361491606001882

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Abstract

Simulated optimum tariff policies to achieve plausible government targets show objective reasons for the failure of international trade cooperation during the Slump of 1929 to 1933. For the largest players, the US and UK,benefits from foreign cooperation were small or negative. France and Germany would have been the principal beneficiaries of international cooperative policies. Since cooperation on one issue, tariffs, was difficult, cooperation on many – through the cross-issue bargaining attempted at the 1933 London Conference- was well nigh impossible. Optimum coordination across policy instruments within one country, on the other hand, would have yielded high returns for policy. A corollary is that lack of internal coordination (poor domestic policies) was a more important cause of the Great Depression than failure to harmonise policies internationally.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Uncontrolled Keywords: international policy co-ordination; tariffs; Great Depression
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1361-4916
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 10:32
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40494

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