Trade and nationalism: market integration in interwar Yugoslavia*
本文实证分析两次世界大战间南斯拉夫王国中民族主义对区域经济整合的负面影响,发现民族主义抬高了贸易成本,阻碍了经济互联,并加剧了政治解体。
Abstract This article empirically analyses the relationship between nationalism and regional economic integration in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between the First and the Second World War. It argues that prevailing nationalism had a negative impact on the economic integration of the regions within the Kingdom and further contributed to the political disintegration of the Kingdom. The analysis implies that the ideology of nationalism increased trade costs and thus retarded economic interconnectivity in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, notwithstanding the favorable trade environment and the desire of the central elites to discourage ethnocentric sentiment.