Serial defaults, serial profits: Returns to sovereign lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Drelichman, Mauricio ^a,b   Voth, Hans Joachim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CIFAR ^*  (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Profitability; Rate of return; Serial default; Sovereign debt; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650728005     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: 10902457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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