Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late-Eighteenth-Century France

Bibliographic Data

ID5753237
AuthorsGuillaume Daudin (0000-0001-9698-4750, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume70
Issue3
Pages716-743
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050710000598
OpenAlexW2038876909
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited38

This article tests whether smaller domestic markets can explain why France industrialized more slowly than Britain. To do so, it uses theTableauxdu Maximum. It begins by presenting this source and then checks if the data from the source are plausible using a logit theoretical gravity equation. The results of this gravity equation are then employed to compute the expected market size of specific supply centers. Even if differences in real, nominal, and disposable income are taken into account, some French supply centers had access to domestic markets that were larger than the whole of Britain

Economic history · Economics · International economics · International trade · Market Size · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic Theory and Policy · Historical Economic and Social Studies

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