Börner, Lars; Severgnini, Battista - 2011
This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The … Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we … variables of medieval trade ows based on an empirical trade model. These results shed new light on many qualitative debates on …