Through a close reading of scattered, disparate, and largely unconnected secondary
sources, supplemented with the analysis of primary sources, and backed by economic …

Households and small businesses are often confronted with funding gaps due to small-scale
lending problems. Whereas existing research focused primarily on how rural areas …

We analyse the estate composition of the richest 30 per cent of people who died in the
Netherlands in 1921 to find that households used a broad range of institutions to meet their …

Powers of attorney are often interpreted as evidence of trust among the parties involved. We
build a novel dataset of notarized powers of attorney, capturing a wide variety of agency …

The article contains the analysis results of the types of credit relations and their criminal law
protection. The aim of the work is to study the problems of crediting and their criminal law …

1.“Credit Leaguers Hold Convention”;“Negroes' Home Stripped of Goods Worth $2,000 As
Security for Loan of $15 by Local Firm,” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1927. 2. Many …

This paper contributes to the study of the dynamics of inclusive finance in Spain. It
documents how a more inclusive financial system matured between the 1960s and at the …

This chapter explores some methodological questions concerning the study of poverty in the
ancient Greek world by using debt and debt bondage as a means for theoretical reflection. It …

Cet article s' intéresse à la création dans le droit français, en 1924, d'un nouveau délit
destiné à poursuivre les «atteintes au crédit de l'État», une notion utilisée pour désigner les …

This article analyses the success of the Bordeaux Mont-de-Piété between 1801 and 1913.
This success was related to several factors. While the legislative environment was already …