The Smoot-Hawley tariff: A quantitative assessment

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 326-334

  Irwin, Douglas A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1162/003465398557410     Document Type: Article

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