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Baring, Wellington and the resurrection of French public finances following Waterloo

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  • Kim Oosterlinck
  • Loredana Ureche-Rangau
  • Jacques-Marie Vaslin

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Following Waterloo, managing French public finances represented a daunting task as the country had lost a substantial part of its population and territory and had to pay huge amounts as reparations to the victors. Despite this, in just ten years, France managed to issue substantial amounts of debt with a spread, compared to the British consol, falling from more than 400 to 100 basis points. We argue that the Duke of Wellington was key in creating an environment in which Baring had an incentive to lend to France and all actors had an incentive to see French debts reimbursed.

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  • Kim Oosterlinck & Loredana Ureche-Rangau & Jacques-Marie Vaslin, 2014. "Baring, Wellington and the resurrection of French public finances following Waterloo," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/205539, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/205539
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    1. Bignon, Vincent & Flandreau, Marc, 2018. "The Other Way: A Narrative History of the Bank of France," CEPR Discussion Papers 13138, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Loredana Ureche-Rangau & Jacques-Marie Vaslin, 2023. "Conversion risk on 19th century French consols and embedded options: A simple exercise," Post-Print hal-04192653, HAL.
    3. Mitchener, Kris & Trebesch, Christoph, 2021. "Sovereign Debt in the 21st Century: Looking Backward, Looking Forward," CEPR Discussion Papers 15935, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Oosterlinck Kim & Panizza Ugo & Weidemaier Mark & Gulati Mitu, 2022. "The Odious Haitian Independence Debt," Journal of Globalization and Development, De Gruyter, vol. 13(2), pages 339-378, December.
    5. Olivier Accominotti & Thilo N. H. Albers & Philipp Kessler & Kim Oosterlinck, 2024. "Sovereign Defaults and International Trade: Germany and its Creditors in the 1930s," Journal of Historical Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 3(4), pages 459-500, February.
    6. Flandreau, Marc, 2017. "Reputation, Regulation and the Collapse of International Capital Markets, 1920-1935," CEPR Discussion Papers 11747, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. Ureche-Rangau, Loredana & Vaslin, Jacques-Marie, 2023. "Conversion risk on 19th century French consols and embedded options: A simple exercise," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(PB).

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