| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23992 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23992 |
| Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age | |
| Gojko Barjamovic; Thomas Chaney; Kerem A. Coşar; Ali Hortaçsu | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-11-06 |
| 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 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Other History ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23992 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581666 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gojko Barjamovic,Thomas Chaney,Kerem A. Coşar,et al. Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age. 2017. |
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| w23992.pdf（5446KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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