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Roberto Bonfatti
Roberto Bonfatti has a part-time appointment as an Assistant Professor with the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, his main position being at the University of Padua (Italy). He was a full time assistant professor at the University of Nottingham between 2012 and 2018. Before that, he was a Junior Research Fellow (post-doc) in economics at St John's College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCARRE). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics (2010), and B.Sc. in economics and finance from Bocconi University. His homepage is: https://sites.google.com/site/rbonfattiweb/
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Trade disruption, industrialisation, and how the sun set on British rule in India
It is argued that by keeping India open to imports of cheap British manufactures, the imperial power made it excessively difficult for Indian industry to emerge in the early 20th century. This article examines this by studying the impact of World War I-related drop in net imports from Britain during 1913-1917 on Indian industrialisation. It finds that the protection offered by this trade shock had a positive effect on Indian industry, and that 24% of industrial employment growth in this period can be attributed to it.
