TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grubb,Farley
TI  - Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13836
PY  - 2008
Y2  - March 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13836
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13836.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Farley Grubb
University of Delaware
Economics Department
Newark, DE  19716
Tel: 302/831-1905
Fax: 302/831-6968
E-Mail: grubbf@udel.edu
AB  - The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they were British colonies exercised considerable real and monetary autonomy over their borders. Purchasing power parity is used to measure how much economic integration between the states was gained in the decades after the Constitution’s adoption compared with what existed among the same locations during the late colonial period. The U.S. Constitution’s net contribution to the economic integration of the nation is found, using this method, to be not as large as is commonly supposed.
ER  -