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| Date: | 2018 |
| Title: | Modelling Maritime Trade Systems: Agent-Based Simulation and Medieval History |
| Author: | Sunder, Marco Ewert, Ulf Christian |
| Description: | Maritime trade grew enormously in Europe after c. 1100 AD, thereby contributing much to the European economic take-off commonly considered as the “Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages.” In this article, determinants of both the formation of the Hanse’s network-based system of trade in Northern Europe and its later dissolution are analysed using a multi-agent model. Findings are connected to the discussion in institutional economics and economic history concerning the importance of institutional developments in long-distance trade for economic growth in medieval Europe, the efficiency of self-enforcing institutions, and the divergence of institutional arrangements in medieval maritime trade. Finally, both potentials and limitations of agent-based models for historical research are discussed. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/72397 |
| Other Identifier: | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/56433 https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.1.110-143 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56433-7 |
| AMAD ID: | 520613 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
