作者:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
作者:Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
作者:University of Helsinki
作者:Trinity College Dublin; Trinity College Dublin; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:This study documents the boom in Europe's imports from Asia and the Americas between 1500 and 1800 and explores its causes. There was no commodity-price convergence between continents, suggesting that declining trade barriers were not the cause of the boom. Thus, it must have been caused by some combination of European import demand and foreign export supply. The behavior of the relative price of foreign importables in European cities should tell us which mattered most and when: we provide the...
作者:University of California System; University of California San Diego
作者:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia