Beyond Banks

A Global History of Credit Markets and Intermediation

Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031758188
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031758195
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Financial Services
• Index: Economics

Highlights how, among others, nuns, traders, notaries, guilds, innkeepers, and shopkeepers formed networks of credit

Offers a more accurate assessment of credit markets throughout history

Focuses on the informational context that frames these markets and the conditions under which these markets thrive and grow

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Beyond Banks: An Introduction
• The Decline of a Great Financial Intermediary: Notaries in France, 1851–1934
• Financial Intermediation in Colonial Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Buenos Aires: Credit, Trust, and Asymmetric Information
• A Network Analysis of Credit Transactions at the Cape Colony During the Eighteenth Century
• An Enslaved Credit Market: Slavery, Deeds, and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro’s Financial Landscape
• From Peer-to-Peer Credit to Banks: A Study of Credit Networks in Uppsala (1810–1910)
• Consumer Credit in Early Modern Venice: The Lending Activity of Innkeepers and Bastioneri
• Lender Classifications and Contracts: Categorization in the All-India Surveys (1951–2012) and Evidence From the Account Books of a Moneylender in Rajasthan (1982–2015)
• Sacré Crédit! The Rise and Fall of Ecclesiastical Credit in Early Modern Spain
• Banking Before Banks in Early Modern Japan: Buddhist Temple Finance
• Ottoman Guilds as Credit-Providing Institutions from the Late 17th to the Early 19th Century
• Back Matter