This appendix to the paper "Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders" includes information on the construction of bread price series,
We consider the puzzling behavior of interest rates and inflation in the United States and the United Kingdom between 1879 and 1913. A deflationary regime prior to 1896 was followed by an inflationary
This was established by King Afonso II in a written document from 04 March 1206 [21]. Weight of goods was set in ‘horse loads’ and in ‘donkey loads’ (one ‘horse load’ was worth two ‘donkey loads’). Th
Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. We study the effects of war on bilat
In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the count of workers in manufacturing establishments in the early censuses of manufacturi
