The fundamental objective of this paper is to show the evolution of the agricultural credit co-operative movement in Spain during the first third of the XX century, when this finance alternative emerged and took shape, based on producer association. With this motive, we analyse aspects such as:...

In a country with a low endowment of capital resources, like Spain, should be very important to know the regional financial flows to explain the growth at that level. In this work, we try to study the effects of the regional distribution of deposits and credits in the Spanish financial system...

In the last eight centuries there have been hundreds of banking crises throughout the entire planet. Spain has not been an exception and our history is plagued with numerous financial disasters in which the collapse of one institution has jeopardized the stability of the whole financial...

Spanish Abstract:"Hambruna y Finanzas" (Famine and Finance) de Tyler Goodspeed evalúa el rol de los servicios de microfinanzas ante un desastre natural general, la gran hambruna irlandesa. El acceso a financiamiento jugó un rol importante en disminuir el hambre y la enfermedad, pero no estuvo...

Studies of Spanish cooperatives locate their spread from the Law on Agrarian Syndicates of 1906. But the first legislative appearance of cooperatives is an 1869 measure that permitted general incorporation for lending companies. The 1931 general law on cooperatives, which was the first measure...

The role of the state in nineteenth-century Spanish economy has been very controversial and has generally received negative judgments. This article tries to evaluate the intervention in the regulation of rice cultivation. Justified against malaria, this regulation encountered great difficulties...

It is broadly acknowledged that micro-credit origin is related to Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. However, there are early experiences in previous centuries that resemble micro-credit, both in developing and developed countries, Spain included. The paper revises those experiences, their similarities...

Authoritarian Monarchies in the Early Modern period have been considered as a keystone of the outset of the market economy in Europe. However, as a result of their own need of coexistence with other power institutions, it has to be taken into account that those monarchies implied the survival of...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un análisis alternativo de la manera como opera la política monetaria y sus efectos sobre la distribución funcional del ingreso en Colombia. El punto de partida son los presupuestos de la teoría endógena de la moneda. En este...

Spanish Abstract: La teoría austriaca del ciclo económico se fundamenta en mecanismos de transmisión monetaria para explicar los auges y las recesiones. De acuerdo a los postulados austriacos, los mercados son procesos dinámicos de interacción entre los agentes económicos, en los cuales no...