adherence is systematically higher along the pre-Islamic trade routes. We discuss the possible mechanisms that may give rise to … and proximity to lucrative trade routes. We argue that these elements exacerbated inequalities across diverse tribal … societies producing a conflictual environment that had the potential to disrupt trade flows. Any credible movement attempting to …

What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade … frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international … trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas, Asia …

This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The … variables of medieval trade ows based on an empirical trade model. These results shed new light on many qualitative debates on … the importance and causes of medieval trade. -- Trade ; Middle Ages ; Black Death ; Gravity model ; Poisson regression …

What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade … frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international … trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas, Asia …

Asia to the biggest trade partner of Ukraine surpassing even Russia and other post-Soviet republics both in amount and the … importance of bilateral trade. To fully understand the current dynamics of bilateral trade between Ukraine and China, it is … cooperation between Ukraine and China.Purpose. To study the history of bilateral trade relations of Ukraine and China from first …

The scale and productivity of maritime trade is a function of environmental conditions, political processes and … conditions in the Roman period were unusually favorable for maritime trade. Technological innovation, by contrast, was primarily …

adherence is systematically higher along the pre-Islamic trade routes. We discuss the possible mechanisms that may give rise to … and proximity to lucrative trade routes. We argue that these elements exacerbated inequalities across diverse tribal … societies producing a conflictual environment that had the potential to disrupt trade flows. Any credible movement attempting to …

trade contributed to Europe's pacification between 1640 and 1896. While the decline in conflict in Europe during this period … has been well documented, the role of Atlantic trade has not been previously explored due to a lack of historical trade … Europe and the New World, which we use as a proxy for Atlantic trade. To identify the causal effects of Atlantic trade, we …