The Primary Cause of European Inflation in 1500-1700: Precious Metals or Population? The English Evidence
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- Anthony Edo & Jacques Melitz, 2019. "The Primary Cause of European Inflation in 1500-1700: Precious Metals or Population? The English Evidence," Working Papers 2019-14, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
- Melitz, Jacques & Edo, Anthony, 2019. "The Primary Cause of European Inflation in 1500-1700: Precious Metals or Population? The English Evidence," CEPR Discussion Papers 14023, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
The “Great Inflation”; Demography; Precious Metals; European Economic History 1500-1700;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- F00 - International Economics - - General - - - General
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2019-10-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2019-10-28 (Macroeconomics)
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