Trade, Merchants and Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3066020 [papers.ssrn.com]
2017-11-08 18:20
We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE. Using the information collected from these records, we estimate a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age. We use our structural gravity model to locate lost ancient cities.
Triangulating from metadata for fun and profit?
(Paywall, but a free version at https://economics.stanford.edu/events/trade-merchants-and-lost-cities-bronze-age.)
source: MR