The Choice of Agrarian Contracts in Early Renaissance Tuscany: Risk Sharing, Moral Hazard, or Capital Market Imperfections?

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 241-257

  Ackerberg, Daniel A ^a   Botticini, Maristella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrarian contracts; risk sharing; moral hazard; Tuscany; medieval; early Renaissance.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001335611     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.2000.0739     Document Type: Article

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