An Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan

By Daniel M. Bernhofen, J. C. Brown. 2005

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Globalization and the Great Divergence: terms of trade booms, volatility and the poor periphery, 1782–1913 (2008, background): “That is, having been forced by American gunboat diplomacy to go open in 1857, after centuries of autarchy, Japan underwent a textbook response (Bernhofen and Brown 2005): the price of importables collapsed, and the price of exportables soared.”
The Gains from Market Integration (2015, background): “An impressive study in this regard is by Bernhofen & Brown (2005), who consider Japan’s (forced) emergence from near-complete autarky in 1853.”
The Marshall Plan and the Spanish autarky: A welfare loss analysis (2010, background): “One of these is Bernhofen and Brown (2005), who studied the contribution made to Japan’s income by its opening up to free trade during the nineteenth century.”