Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy

Kufenko, Vadim; Geloso, Vincent

Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy

dc.contributor.author	Kufenko, Vadim	de
dc.contributor.author	Geloso, Vincent	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:50:59Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:50:59Z
dc.date.created	2015-03-05
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	In this paper we study Malthusian pressures in a frontier economy. Using the empirical data on the real prices and demographic variables from 1688 to 1860 for Quebec and Montreal, we test for the existence of Malthusian pressures. Bearing in mind the particularities of frontier economies and the development of the Canadian economy, we conduct cointegration tests and VARs in order to identify positive and preventive checks. The cointegration test reveals absence of long-run equilibrium relationship between real wheat prices, birth and death rates. Using the Bai-Perron test we find a structural break in 1767 and divide the sample in pre- and post-conquest periods. We find that the positive checks were operating in the years prior to the conquest but that they faded during the nineteenth century. In the short-run, we find that wheat prices Granger-cause fluctuations in death rates in the pre-conquest period.	en
dc.identifier.swb	427200741
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5885
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-10567
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung; 42
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Malthusian economy	en
dc.subject	Preventive check	en
dc.subject	Positive check	en
dc.subject	Canadian history	en
dc.subject	Empirical analysis	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Malthusianismus	de
dc.subject.gnd	Kanada	de
dc.title	Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
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local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Kufenko2015, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5885}, author = {Kufenko, Vadim and Geloso, Vincent}, title = {Malthusian pressures : empirical evidence from a frontier economy}, year = {2015}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Kufenko, Vadim and Geloso, Vincent
local.export.bibtexKey	Kufenko2015
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1056
local.series.issueNumber	42
local.series.title	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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