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Market Organization, Protection, and Vertical Integration: German Cotton Textiles before 1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

John C. Brown
John C. Brown
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Assistant Professor of Economics at Clark University.
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Abstract

This article examines the causes for the relatively high degree of vertical integration in the German cotton textile industry before 1914. Underdeveloped input and output markets exposed German textile firms to price risks not faced by English firms that had access to highly-developed cotton, yarn, and cloth markets. In addition, tariff protection may have prompted integration by its impact on market development. In the weaving sector in particular, the response to this structure of markets was a more diversified product line and integration of both spinning and weaving.

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Papers Presented at the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 339 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1992

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