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BILATERALISM IN THE INTERWAR WORLD ECONOMY *
Author(s) -
Kitson Michael,
Solomou Solomos
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8586.1995.tb00610.x
Subject(s) - bilateralism , protectionism , interwar period , economics , sample (material) , international economics , international trade , multilateralism , political science , world war ii , law , politics , chemistry , chromatography
Discriminatory protectionist policies in the 1930s are assumed to have led to a collapse of multilateral trading patterns. This paper examines the trends in bilateralism during the interwar period for a sample of ten countries. The findings show that, with the exception of Germany between 1934 and 1938, the level of bilateralism fluctuated but did not see a significant trend increase in the period of increased protectionism during the 1930s.