Brian D Varian
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 967385 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian D Varian |
| NOMBRES | Brian D |
| APELLIDO | Varian |
| FIRMA | VARIAN B D |
| AFILIACIONES | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6369-591X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
American tariffs and Anglo-Canadian trade
British exports and foreign tariffs
This research note contributes to the debate over whether British exports were elastic to foreign tariffs before the First World War. In doing so, this study is the first to make econometric use of the commodity- and country-disaggregated foreign tariff data that Britain's Board of Trade compiled for the year 1902. Contrary to previous literature, British exports were indeed elastic to foreign tariffs across a range of manufactured commodities, w…
Revisiting the tariff‐growth correlation
This article tests for the presence of a tariff‐growth correlation among the seven tariff‐autonomous colonies of late‐nineteenth‐century Australasia, making use of several colony‐specific macroeconomic series that have only recently become available. Introducing tariffs to a convergence model yields no evidence of an association between tariffs and growth among the Australasian colonies. This finding is unaltered when the tariff variable is repla…
Protection and the British rayon industry during the 1920s
The Finance Act of 1925 imposed upon rayon yarn an excise duty of 1 s. per lb. and an import duty of 2 s. per lb. This article argues that the difference between the excise and import duties was not intended as classic protection. Rather, the difference was intended only to indemnify British producers for the excise-wrought decline in domestic consumption by means of an offsetting reduction of imports. This article then estimates that, had the ra…
Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements
In the Edwardian era, the British Dominions adopted policies of imperial preference amid a period of rising imports from the United States and industrial continental Europe. Hitherto, there has been no econometric assessment of whether these policies diverted the Dominions' imports towards the Empire, as was intended. This article focuses on New Zealand's initial policy of imperial preference, codified in the Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act…
The manufacturing comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain
The growth of manufacturing protection in 1920s Britain
Prior to the Import Duties Act of 1932, an assortment of legislation expanded the scope of manufacturing protection in Britain. This article assesses the magnitude of manufacturing protection before the Import Duties Act and finds that, in 1930, 9% of net manufacturing output occurred in a protected industry. In the late 1920s, protected industries exhibited above‐average growth in labour productivity. However, protection was disproportionately e…
Anglo-American trade costs during the first era of globalization
Previous scholarship has suggested that British trade was generally unaffected by foreign tariffs during the period from 1870 to 1913. This article focuses specifically on Anglo-American trade, which was the largest bilateral flow of trade during the first era of globalization, and finds that tariffs were the sole intertemporal determinant of Anglo-American trade costs. However, the determinacy of tariffs for Anglo-American trade costs only becom…
British Capital and Merchandise Exports, 1870–1913
The Ford thesis argued that there was a short‐term causal relationship between British overseas investment and British merchandise exports in the late nineteenth century. However, economic historians since Ford have found little empirical evidence in support of this argument. Using data on bilateral British lending, this article finds that such a relationship did exist, with British ex ante lending preceding merchandise exports by 2 years. A case…
The growth of manufacturing protection in 1920s Britain
Prior to the Import Duties Act of 1932, an assortment of legislation expanded the scope of manufacturing protection in Britain. This article assesses the magnitude of manufacturing protection before the Import Duties Act and finds that, in 1930, 9% of net manufacturing output occurred in a protected industry. In the late 1920s, protected industries exhibited above‐average growth in labour productivity. However, protection was disproportionately e…
Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements
In the Edwardian era, the British Dominions adopted policies of imperial preference amid a period of rising imports from the United States and industrial continental Europe. Hitherto, there has been no econometric assessment of whether these policies diverted the Dominions' imports towards the Empire, as was intended. This article focuses on New Zealand's initial policy of imperial preference, codified in the Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act…
Anglo-American trade costs during the first era of globalization
Previous scholarship has suggested that British trade was generally unaffected by foreign tariffs during the period from 1870 to 1913. This article focuses specifically on Anglo-American trade, which was the largest bilateral flow of trade during the first era of globalization, and finds that tariffs were the sole intertemporal determinant of Anglo-American trade costs. However, the determinacy of tariffs for Anglo-American trade costs only becom…
British Capital and Merchandise Exports, 1870–1913
The Ford thesis argued that there was a short‐term causal relationship between British overseas investment and British merchandise exports in the late nineteenth century. However, economic historians since Ford have found little empirical evidence in support of this argument. Using data on bilateral British lending, this article finds that such a relationship did exist, with British ex ante lending preceding merchandise exports by 2 years. A case…
Anglo-American trade costs during the first era of globalization
Previous scholarship has suggested that British trade was generally unaffected by foreign tariffs during the period from 1870 to 1913. This article focuses specifically on Anglo-American trade, which was the largest bilateral flow of trade during the first era of globalization, and finds that tariffs were the sole intertemporal determinant of Anglo-American trade costs. However, the determinacy of tariffs for Anglo-American trade costs only becom…
The growth of manufacturing protection in 1920s Britain
Prior to the Import Duties Act of 1932, an assortment of legislation expanded the scope of manufacturing protection in Britain. This article assesses the magnitude of manufacturing protection before the Import Duties Act and finds that, in 1930, 9% of net manufacturing output occurred in a protected industry. In the late 1920s, protected industries exhibited above‐average growth in labour productivity. However, protection was disproportionately e…
The manufacturing comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain
Revisiting the tariff‐growth correlation
This article tests for the presence of a tariff‐growth correlation among the seven tariff‐autonomous colonies of late‐nineteenth‐century Australasia, making use of several colony‐specific macroeconomic series that have only recently become available. Introducing tariffs to a convergence model yields no evidence of an association between tariffs and growth among the Australasian colonies. This finding is unaltered when the tariff variable is repla…
Protection and the British rayon industry during the 1920s
The Finance Act of 1925 imposed upon rayon yarn an excise duty of 1 s. per lb. and an import duty of 2 s. per lb. This article argues that the difference between the excise and import duties was not intended as classic protection. Rather, the difference was intended only to indemnify British producers for the excise-wrought decline in domestic consumption by means of an offsetting reduction of imports. This article then estimates that, had the ra…
Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements
In the Edwardian era, the British Dominions adopted policies of imperial preference amid a period of rising imports from the United States and industrial continental Europe. Hitherto, there has been no econometric assessment of whether these policies diverted the Dominions' imports towards the Empire, as was intended. This article focuses on New Zealand's initial policy of imperial preference, codified in the Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act…
British exports and foreign tariffs
This research note contributes to the debate over whether British exports were elastic to foreign tariffs before the First World War. In doing so, this study is the first to make econometric use of the commodity- and country-disaggregated foreign tariff data that Britain's Board of Trade compiled for the year 1902. Contrary to previous literature, British exports were indeed elastic to foreign tariffs across a range of manufactured commodities, w…
American tariffs and Anglo-Canadian trade
Economics (9 obras) · International trade (7 obras) · Global trade and economics (5 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · International economics (4 obras) · Australian History and Society (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Tariff (3 obras)