Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years

Ayuso Díaz, Alejandro; Tena Junguito, Antonio

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Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.affiliation.grupoinv	UC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Historias de los Capitalismos Latinos Globales (H-GLACIAL)	es
dc.contributor.author	Ayuso Díaz, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Tena Junguito, Antonio
dc.contributor.funder	Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España)	es
dc.contributor.funder	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
dc.coverage.spatial	east=138.252924; north=36.204824; name=Japón	es
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-03T15:28:53Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-03T15:28:53Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-01
dc.description.abstract	During the interwar years, Japanese industrialization accelerated alongside the expansion of industrial exports to regional markets. Trade blocs in the interwar years were used as an instrument of imperial power to foster exports and as a substitute for productivity to encourage industrial production. The historiography on Japanese industrialization in the interwar years describes heavy industries’ interests in obtaining access to wider markets to increase economies of scale and reduce unit costs. However, this literature provides no quantitative evidence that proves the success of those mechanisms in expanding exports. In this article we scrutinize how Japan— a relatively poor country—used colonial as well as informal power interventions to expand regional markets for its exports, especially for the most intensive human capital sector of the industrializing economy. Our results show that Japanese exports in 1938 would have been around one-third smaller had no empire ever existed, which indicates an outstanding effect of empire in the international context.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Alejandro Ayuso-Díaz acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Sciences through the pre-doctoral scholarship FPU2016-01868 and Antonio Tena-Junguito acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, research project ECO2015/00209.	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Ayuso‐Díaz, A., & Tena‐Junguito, A. (2020). Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years. The Economic History Review, 73 (3), pp. 815-843.	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12912
dc.identifier.issn	0013-0117
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	815	es
dc.identifier.publicationissue	3	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	843	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	73	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36467
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000027411
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Wiley	es
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España. FPU2016-01868	es
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España. ECO2015/00209	es
dc.rights	© Economic History Society 2020	es
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.subject.other	Japanese industrialization	en
dc.subject.other	Interwar years	en
dc.subject.other	Japan	en
dc.subject.other	Japanese exports	en
dc.title	Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years	en
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