TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lehmann,Sibylle H.
AU  - O'Rourke,Kevin H.
TI  - The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14493
PY  - 2008
Y2  - November 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14493
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14493.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sibylle H. Lehmann
MPI Gemeinschaftsg
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 10
53113 Bonn, Germany
E-Mail: lehmann@coll.mpg.de

Kevin H. O'Rourke
All Souls College
Oxford University
Oxford OX1 4AL, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1865 279 348
Fax: 353-1-6772503
E-Mail: kevin.orourke@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
AB  - Many papers have explored the relationship between average tariff rates and economic growth, when theory suggests that the structure of protection is what should matter. We therefore explore the relationship between economic growth and agricultural tariffs, industrial tariffs, and revenue tariffs, for a sample of relatively well-developed countries between 1875 and 1913. Industrial tariffs were positively correlated with growth. Agricultural tariffs were negatively correlated with growth, although the relationship was often statistically insignificant at conventional levels. There was no relationship between revenue tariffs and growth.
ER  -