Quantifying the integration of the Babylonian economy in the Mediterranean world using a new corpus of price data, 400-50 BC
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Babylon; Rome; trade; price volatility;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2013-11-29 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2013-11-29 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INT-2013-11-29 (International Trade)
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