| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9401 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9401 |
| Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II | |
| Michael A. Clemens; Jeffrey G. Williamson | |
| 发表日期 | 2002-12-23 |
| 出版年 | 2002 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite an enormous literature that has analyzed the comparative experiences of Latin America and Asia in post-World War II trade policy, almost no attention has been paid to the comparative experience prior to the wars. Even a cursory look at the best available empirical evidence reveals tremendous contrasts between the two regions. Latin America had the highest tariff barriers on earth before 1914; Asia had the lowest. Protected Latin America's belle ‚poque also boasted some of the most explosive growth performance on earth, while Asia registered some of the worst. What brought the two regions to the opposite ends of the tariff policy spectrum? And why are these quantum differences in economic performance so at odds with postwar conventional wisdom? We begin by describing a novel tariff database we have constructed from largely original sources. We explore the impact of colonial rule and unequal treaties' on Asian tariffs, as well as the impact of geography and political economy on Latin American tariffs. Limits to tariff policy autonomy explain one third of the vast difference between the two regions' tariffs before 1914; differences in the extent and structure of internal markets as well as the world tariff environment explain much of the rest. We conclude with an agenda for the future. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; History ; Other History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9401 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567020 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael A. Clemens,Jeffrey G. Williamson. Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II. 2002. |
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