Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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How economists used models of international trade to find lost cities that Indiana Jones and archaeologists couldn't.

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CORRECTION: The gravity equations in this video should have d-squared in the denominator.

This video is based on the paper:
Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem Coşar, Ali Hortaçsu
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 1455–1503

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