This paper investigates the impact of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire on the integration of regional and colonial commodity markets in the Near East. Exploiting a novel dataset on commodity prices in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom covering the 1787–1939 period, it assesses the extent of price dispersion across markets before and after the end of the Ottoman Empire and investigates the causes behind the change in market integration. The results indicate that, while regional markets disintegrated during 1923–39, reflecting the anti-global environment of the interwar era, colonial market linkages strengthened. The empirical findings also highlight that border effects, rather the rise of protection per se, were the main drivers behind the increase of regional price dispersion.

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从共同帝国到殖民统治：近东商品市场解体

本文研究了奥斯曼帝国的瓦解对近东地区和殖民地商品市场一体化的影响。利用涵盖 1787 年至 1939 年期间叙利亚、埃及、土耳其、法国和英国大宗商品价格的新颖数据集，评估了奥斯曼帝国灭亡前后市场价格分散的程度，并调查了背后的原因市场一体化的变化。结果表明，虽然区域市场在 1923-39 年期间解体，反映了两次世界大战期间的反全球环境，但殖民地市场联系却得到了加强。实证研究结果还强调，边境效应，而不是保护本身的增加，是区域价格离散度增加的主要驱动力。