Curran, Declan; Fröling, Maria - In: Economic Modelling 27 (2010) 5, pp. 1302-1314
This paper considers the consequences of a large scale mortality shock arising from a famine or epidemic for long run economic and demographic development. The Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852 is taken as a case-study and is incorporated as an exogenous mortality shock into the type of long-run...