People, Plagues, and Prices in the Roman World: The Evidence from Egypt
利用罗马时期埃及的纸莎草文献，构建了小麦价格、土地价格、租金和工资的长期数据集，分析名义和实际价格变动揭示经济增长与收缩，并探讨人口变化对要素价格的影响。
The papyri of Roman Egypt provide some of the most important quantifiable data from a first-millennium economy. This paper builds a new dataset of wheat prices, land prices, rents, and wages over the entire period of Roman control in Egypt. Movements in both nominal and real prices over these centuries suggest periods of intensive and extensive economic growth as well as contraction. Across a timeframe that covers several severe mortality shocks, demographic changes appear to be an important, but by no means the only, force behind changes in factor prices.