Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe

Kohn, Meir

doi:10.2139/ssrn.255573

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Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe

Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-06

63 Pages Posted: 11 Jan 2001

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Meir Kohn

Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

Date Written: January 2001

Abstract

The development of pre-industrial Europe was driven by the expansion of trade. This paper describes the patterns of trade and shows how they can be understood in terms of differences in trading costs. It discusses how the different levels of trade?from local to transoceanic-contributed, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to the process of growth.

JEL Classification: F14, F15, F43, N13, N73, O19, O52, R11, R12

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Kohn, Meir G., Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe (January 2001). Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=255573 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.255573