| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12408 |
| DP12408 Trade, Merchants and Lost Cities of the Bronze Age | |
| Kerem Cosar; Thomas Chaney; Ali Hortacsu | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-10-30 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE. Using the information collected from these records, we estimate a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age. We use our structural gravity model to locate lost ancient cities. In many instances, our structural estimates confirm the conjectures of historians who follow different methodologies. In some instances, our estimates confirm one conjecture against others. Confronting our structural estimates for ancient city sizes to modern data on population, income, and regional trade, we document persistent patterns in the distribution of city sizes across four millennia, even after controlling for time-invariant geographic attributes such as agricultural suitability. Finally, we offer evidence in support of the hypothesis that large cities tend to emerge at the intersections of natural transport routes, as dictated by topography. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Trade Economic history Economic geography |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12408 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541217 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kerem Cosar,Thomas Chaney,Ali Hortacsu. DP12408 Trade, Merchants and Lost Cities of the Bronze Age. 2017. |
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