author = { Ewert, Ulf Christian AND Sunder, Marco },

title = { Modelling Maritime Trade Systems: Agent-Based Simulation and Medieval History },

publisher = {},

keywords = { Wirtschaftsentwicklung , Schifffahrt , Handel , Simulation , Hanse , Europa , Netzwerk , Mittelalter , Wirtschaftsgeschichte , commercial revolution , medieval maritime trade , multi-agent models , network organisation },

year = {2018},

abstract = {Veröffentlichungsversion},

abstract = {begutachtet (peer reviewed)},

abstract = {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.},

address = { },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }