Premodern debasement: a messy affair
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Keywords
monetary policies; debasements; monitoring costs; currency markets; late middle ages; early modern period;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N43 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2018-02-05 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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