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

Daudin, Guillaume

Daudin, Guillaume (2010), Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late-Eighteenth-Century France, The Journal of Economic History, 70, 03, p. 716-743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050710000598

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Type

Article accepté pour publication ou publié

Date

2010-09

Journal name

The Journal of Economic History

Volume

Number

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pages

716-743

Abstract (EN)

This article tests whether smaller domestic markets can explain why France industrialized more slowly than Britain. To do so, it uses the Tableaux du 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.

Subjects / Keywords

Economic Integration; Domestic markets; Tableaux du Maximum

JEL

N73 - Europe: Pre-1913
F15 - Economic Integration