A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the
ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature
has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing" lessons learned" in historical …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature
has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing “lessons learned” in historical …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the twenty-first century? We survey how the
literature has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing “lessons learned” in historical …

This paper explores the role of agriculture in Spain's contribution to the little divergence in
Europe. On the basis of tithes, long-run trends in agricultural output are drawn. After a long …

The economic decline of Early Modern Spain offers an opportunity to explore how it affected
perceptions of welfare and inequality. We provide an answer based on the Bull of the …

In A Dissimulated Trade, Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the
Spanish empire. Making use of the rich collection of notarial deeds available at the Archivo …

In the fragmented geographical, fiscal, and financial state inherited by Philip II of Spain,
while the public debt reached an unprecedented level (50–60 per cent of GDP), the critical …

Abstract Around 1500 Spain and Portugal were among the most affluent nations in the
world, and had income levels which were similar to those of other Western European …

Spain's wars against the Dutch and the English provoked an increasing hostility towards
north European migrants in Castile in the last third of the sixteenth century. While migrants …