Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke Author-Workplace-Name: All Souls College, University of Oxford Title: Two Great Trade Collapses: The Intewar Period & Great Recession Compared Abstract: Preliminary version of a paper prepared for IMF-BNM-IMFER Conference on Globalization in the Aftermath of the Crisis and the IMF Economic Review. The research on which this paper is based was in part funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no. 249546. The paper draws on many collaborations, and I am extremely grateful to my co-authors: Miguel Almunia, Agustin Bénétrix, Roberto Bonfatti, Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, Alan Fernihough, Ronald Findlay, William Hynes, David Jacks, Markus Lampe, Gisela Rua, and Jeffrey Williamson. The usual disclaimer applies. X-Classification-JEL: X-Keywords: Length: 49 pages Creation-Date: 2017-10-23 Number: _159 File-URL: https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/working_papers/4543/159orourke.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:nuf:esohwp:_159