Trade persistence and trader identity - evidence from the demise of the Hanseatic League
How do trade networks persist following disruptions of political networks? We study different types of persistence following the decline of the Hanseatic League using a panel of 21,590 city-level trade flows over 190 years, covering 1,425 cities. We use the Sound Toll data, a dataset collected by th...
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Format: | Working paper |
Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2022
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