期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2013
卷号：2013
出版社：Bergen
摘要：The British Government made concerted and sustained efforts to monitor the grain trade throughout England, Wales and Scotland, 1770-1914. At its minimum, this project involved collection and publication of weekly prices for five different grains for 44 counties or regions; at its maximum, it covered weekly prices and quantities traded for seven grains for 290 towns. In total, the Government collected in excess of 6 million data points, 1770-1914. Generally referred to as the Corn Returns, they havebeen widely used to construct cost of living indices (Phelps Brown and Hopkins 1954; Clark 2001),1 measure market integration (Shiue and Keller 2007; Jacks 2011), infer rates of return on commodities (Brunt and Cannon 2012), and even explain cognitive ability (Baten et al., 2012). We computerised all the available data up to 1864 to analyse market integration and other aspects of British economic development. Several recent studies using British grain prices utilize the data set we created, which we describe here (Jacks, 2011; Baten et al., 2012; Brunt and Cannon 2012).
