Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
List of Charts and Tables......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 The Financial Administration of North Hanseatic Cities in the Late Middle Ages......Page 16
2 Government Debts and Credit Markets in Renaissance Italy......Page 28
3 Government Debts and Financial Markets in Castile Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries......Page 44
4 Government Debts and Financial Markets: Exploring Pro-cycle Effects in Northern Italy During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries......Page 56
5 Government Policies and the Development of Financial Markets: The Case of Madrid in the Seventeenth Century......Page 78
6 The Role Played by Short-term Credit in the Spanish Monarchy\'s Finances......Page 92
7 From Subordination to Autonomy: Public Debt Policies and the Creation of a Self-ruled Financial Market in the Kingdom of Naples in the Long Run (1500–1800)......Page 108
8 Public Debt in the Papal States: Financial Market and Government Strategies in the Long Run (Seventeenth–Ninteenth Centuries)......Page 116
9 Towards a New Public Credit Policy in Eighteenth-century Spain: The Introduction of the Tesorerla Mayor de Guerra (1703–6)......Page 132
10 French Public Finance Between 1683 and 1726......Page 146
11 Long-term War Loans and Market Expectations in England, 1743–50......Page 178
12 Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit of Power with Profit: The Management of Britain\'s National Debt, 1756–1815......Page 190
13 Italian Government Debt Sustainability in the Long Run, 1861–2000......Page 220
14 Times of Wasteful Abundance: The Apogee of the Fiscal State in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s......Page 236
Conclusion......Page 242
Notes......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 306
Index......Page 342