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Rural Credit Markets and Aggregate Shocks: The Experience of Nuits St. Georges, 1756–1776

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  • Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent

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Using a complete enumeration of credit contracts for a rural area in Burgundy, this article examines how credit markets functioned and what role they served. Credit markets distributed funds to a large fraction of the population, and they were organized to mediate problems of asymmetric information. A central constraint on credit markets, however, was the threat of government intervention. Because of this threat, capital markets remained relatively isolated from one another.

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  • Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, 1994. "Rural Credit Markets and Aggregate Shocks: The Experience of Nuits St. Georges, 1756–1776," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 54(2), pages 288-306, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:54:y:1994:i:02:p:288-306_01
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