Economists and lawyers have considered the efficiency of bankruptcy procedures, but given little serious attention to historical examples. Conceptual difficulties also arise in distinguishing «bankruptcy» and «insolvency» as overlapping, but not interchangeable, categories. Bankruptcy statistics provide a useful indication of economic conjunctures. A hike in Sevillian bankruptcies Seville during 1566-1577 shows the effects of government interventions in the Seville money market including the decreto suspending payments on the Castilian floating debt of 1575; this paper details the crisis through the correspondence of local merchants observing these events, focussing on the collapse of Seville’s two licensed deposit-banks in 1576.
Hadlow Historical Society, United Kingdom
Titolo del capitolo
Bankruptcy procedures in sixteenth century Seville, with special reference to the Espinosa and Morga bank failures in the 1570s
Autori
Mark Steele
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.18
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
568
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0962-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0963-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0964-9
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195