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When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice

In: Financing in Europe

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  • Isabella Cecchini

    (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

Abstract

Cecchini analyses how merchants and political institutions cope with failures and defaults that compromise credit relationships in an early modern trading centre. Focusing on the structure of financing business and trade in Venice and on the legal framework that protects creditors, she links the widespread form of trading company (the temporary partnership) to the large recourse to arbitration procedures for solving disputes, and to the lesser efficiency of institutional and legal frameworks traditionally securing credit rights in Venice. ‘Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice’ concludes with the hypothesis that the changing commercial environment and the spread of temporary societies reduce the protective strength of Venetian institutions and increase instability in financing international trade.

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  • Isabella Cecchini, 2018. "When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Marcella Lorenzini & Cinzia Lorandini & D'Maris Coffman (ed.), Financing in Europe, pages 47-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-319-58493-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58493-5_3
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