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Interest Rates and Silver Production: Credit in Mexico City Between Market and Spirituality (1770–1779 and 1819–1828)

In: Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic

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  • Andrés Calderón Fernández

    (Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

  • Rafael Dobado González

    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Alfredo Garcia-Hiernaux

    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract

Using new information obtained in a thorough research in the Archive of Public Notaries in Mexico City, we explore the main financial market of New Spain/Mexico. With improved series of silver production and outflow, we try to determine whether silver production had any influence on the level of interest rates. We also try to compare the situation of the credit market before and after Mexican independence in different aspects, such as the profile of creditors and debtors and the average and median size of the loans. This is a groundbreaking essay since there are still many unknown aspects of the Mexican financial markets—for example the depth of the impact of the Consolidación de Vales Reales between 1804 and 1809 and the intensity of the effects of political and military events—and, most important, no general quantitative approaches on the matter have been made yet.

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  • Andrés Calderón Fernández & Rafael Dobado González & Alfredo Garcia-Hiernaux, 2019. "Interest Rates and Silver Production: Credit in Mexico City Between Market and Spirituality (1770–1779 and 1819–1828)," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Renate Pieper & Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies & Markus Denzel (ed.), Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic, chapter 0, pages 313-347, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-23894-0_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23894-0_13
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