Research Article

Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth

Volume: 73 Number: 1 March 26, 2018
  • M. Erdem Özgür
  • Hasan Vergil
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Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth

Abstract

The American economy exhibited an impressive growth in the nineteenth century. There certainly are numerous factors at play in this extraordinary growth story. This paper presents a quantitative analysis which investigates the role of foreign trade in the nineteenth century American growth. To this purpose, the relationship between real exports, real imports and real GDP is questioned between the years 1820 and 1910. Since the American Civil War was an extremely important event in the American history we divided the period under examination into two, 1820-1860 and 1867-1910 periods. By examining causal relationship, we aim at investigating the existence of export led growth, growth led exports, import led growth and growth led imports hypotheses during the periods before and after the Civil War. While the results exhibit a strong evidence for growth-led imports in both samples, export led growth, growth led exports and import led growth hypotheses are supported only in the second period.

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References

  1. Referans 1
  2. Abramowitz, Moses (1989), Thinking About Growth and Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare (New York: Cambridge University Press).

Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

March 26, 2018

Submission Date

July 18, 2016

Acceptance Date

July 17, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 73 Number: 1

APA
Özgür, M. E., & Vergil, H. (2018). Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 73(1), 291-317. https://doi.org/10.1501/SBFder_0000002498
AMA
1.Özgür ME, Vergil H. Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth. SBF Dergisi. 2018;73(1):291-317. doi:10.1501/SBFder_0000002498
Chicago
Özgür, M. Erdem, and Hasan Vergil. 2018. “Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 73 (1): 291-317. https://doi.org/10.1501/SBFder_0000002498.
EndNote
Özgür ME, Vergil H (March 1, 2018) Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 73 1 291–317.
IEEE
[1]M. E. Özgür and H. Vergil, “Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth”, SBF Dergisi, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 291–317, Mar. 2018, doi: 10.1501/SBFder_0000002498.
ISNAD
Özgür, M. Erdem - Vergil, Hasan. “Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 73/1 (March 1, 2018): 291-317. https://doi.org/10.1501/SBFder_0000002498.
JAMA
1.Özgür ME, Vergil H. Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth. SBF Dergisi. 2018;73:291–317.
MLA
Özgür, M. Erdem, and Hasan Vergil. “Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, vol. 73, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 291-17, doi:10.1501/SBFder_0000002498.
Vancouver
1.M. Erdem Özgür, Hasan Vergil. Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth. SBF Dergisi. 2018 Mar. 1;73(1):291-317. doi:10.1501/SBFder_0000002498