TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jacks,David S.
TI  - Foreign Wars, Domestic Markets: England, 1793-1815
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16236
PY  - 2010
Y2  - July 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16236
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16236.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David S. Jacks
Department of Economics
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
CANADA
Tel: 778/782-5392
Fax: 778/782-5944
E-Mail: dsjacks@gmail.com
AB  - This paper explores the means by which warfare influences domestic commodity markets.  It is argued that England during the French Wars provides an ideal testing ground.  Four categories of explanatory variables are taken as likely sources of documented changes in English commodity price dis-integration during this period: weather, trade, policy, and wartime events.  Empirically, increases in price dispersion are related to all of the above categories.  However, the primary means identified by which warfare influenced domestic commodity market integration was through international trade linkages and the arrival of news regarding wartime events.
ER  -