This article proposes a revision to existing arguments that institutions of limited government
(characterized by multiple veto points) improve the ability of governments to credibly commit …

Nineteenth-century businesswomen were almost entirely neglected, the historiography
having adopted the hypothesis of the withdrawal of women from the business sphere after …

This article surveys cliometric research on the development of the French economy, with
special emphasis on the fiscal and monetary history of the Revolution, the alleged …

The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the
last century. As William Chester Jordan amply demonstrates in Women and Credit in Pre …

BENEATH THE VAST HISTORY OF BUSINESS PRACTICEs-and underneath the historical
scholarship on financial transactions in particular-there lurks a beguiling story, a story that …

The French economy has been criticized for a lack of integration of women in business and
for the prevalence of inefficient family firms. A sample drawn from patent and exhibition …

Over time, international trade expanded beyond the reach of an individual's personal
networks. How was long-distance trade among strangers financed without using banks? I …

French. Les auteurs s' interrogent sur ce qu'il en était sous l'Ancien Régime des institutions
de crédit, qui paraissent aujourd'hui aller de soi. Pour répondre à cette question, le Paris …

This article illustrates the impact of Jewish lenders on private credit markets and public
finance in medieval and Renaissance Italian towns. In Tuscan private credit markets, Jewish …

In advanced economies interest rates vary inversely with the risk of default, which itself is
negatively related to the borrower's socio‐economic status. The former relationship depends …