Financing in Europe

Marcella Lorenzini is a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Trento, Italy. Her work researches how credit markets develop in the absence of formal institutions. Her recent publications include one monograph and a chapter in a collected volume on Infrastructure Financing in the Early Modern Age.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I Informal, Non-institutional and Professional Credit in Preindustrial Europe.- Chapter 2: The Rise of London as a Financial Capital in Late Medieval England.- Chapter 3: When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice.- Chapter 4: Financing Trade Through Limited Partnerships: Evidence from Silk Firms in Eighteenth-Century Trentino.- Chapter 5: Borrowing and Lending Money in Alpine Areas During the Eighteenth Century: Trento and Rovereto Compared.- Chapter 6: The Social Acceptance of Paper Credit as Currency in Eighteenth-Century England: A Case Study of Glastonbury c. 1720-1742.- Chapter 7: Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries, 1500-1800.- Chapter 8: Notaries and Domestic Lending in Wartime (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France).- Chapter 9: Private Credit in Spain During the Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries: Institutions, Crisis and War.- Part II Credit in the Time of the Emergence of Modern Banking.- Chapter 10: Microcredit in the Ottoman Empire: A Review of Cash Waqfs in Transition to Modern Banking.- Chapter 11 Challenging the Institutional Revolution of Credit Markets in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 12: Relationship-Based Finance in Changing European Banking Scenarios: The Case of Parent Schaken et Compagnie (1835-66).- Chapter 13: Formalising Credit Markets? The Entrance of English Joint-Stock Banks.- Chapter 14: Towards the Institutionalisation of Credit.