Epidemic trade

Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini

Economic History Working Papers from London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History

Abstract: This paper uses the spread of disease as a proxy to measure economic interactions. Based on a case study of the Black Death (1346-51) in the Mediterranean region and Europe, we find geographic, institutional, and cultural determinants of trade. To achieve this we create and empirically test a trade model between cities. Our findings allow us to create a new methodology to measure economic interaction and shed light on open questions in economics, especially pertaining to trade, economic history, and growth

Keywords: trade; Black Death; gravity model; Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood; spatial regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 N13 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gro, nep-hea, nep-int and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Epidemic Trade (2012)
Working Paper: Epidemic trade (2011)
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