Foreign Trade and Nineteenth Century American Growth
Öz
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.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Referans 1
- Abramowitz, Moses (1989), Thinking About Growth and Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare (New York: Cambridge University Press).
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
M. Erdem Özgür
Bu kişi benim
0000-0002-0324-011X
Hasan Vergil
Bu kişi benim
0000-0001-9629-3036
Yayımlanma Tarihi
26 Mart 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
18 Temmuz 2016
Kabul Tarihi
17 Temmuz 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 73 Sayı: 1