Government debts and financial markets in Europe
By: edited by Fausto Piola Caselli
Series: Financial history -- no. 5; Financial history (London, England) -- no. 5.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781851969623
Subjects: O ffentliche Schulden; Public Debts; Finance; Internationaler Kreditmarkt; History
Description: Fausto Piola Caselli brings together essays by leading historians of economic and financial history. They illuminate the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: The financial administration of North Hanseatic cities in the late middle ages : development, organization and politics / Andreas Ranft; title: Government debts and credit markets in Renaissance Italy / Luciano Pezzolo; title: Government debts and financial markets in Castile between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / David Alonso Garci a; title: Government debt and financial markets : exploring pro-cycle effects in northern Italy during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries / Giuseppe De Luca; title: Government policies and the development of financial markets : the case of Madrid in the seventeenth century / Jose  Ignacio Andre s Ucendo; title: The role played by short-term credit in the Spanish monarchy's finances / Carlos A lvarez-Nogal; title: From subordination to autonomy : public debt policies and the creation of a self-ruled financial market in the Kingdom of Naples in the long run (1500-1800) / Gaetano Sabatini; title: Public debt in the papal states : financial market and government strategies in the long run (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) / Fausto Piola Caselli; title: Towards a new public credit policy in eighteenth-century Spain : the introduction of the Tesoreri a Mayor de Guerra (1703-6) / Anne Dubet; title: French public finance between 1683 and 1726 / Franc ois R. Velde; title: Long-term war loans and market expectations in England, 1743-50 / Christophe Chamley; title: Mercantilist institutions for the pursuit of power with profit : the management of Britain's national debt, 1756-1815 / Patrick Karl O'Brien; title: Italian government debt sustainability in the long run, 1861-2000 / Giuseppe Conti; title: Times of wasteful abundance : the apogee of the fiscal state in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s / Hans-Peter Ullmann; title: Conclusion : Final remarks / David Stasavage.