"Global trade and colonial extraction drew the early modern world closer together, carving out circuits in which silver and gold crossed oceans and continents.1 What forms did these metals take, and whose practices constituted these forms? The 3,500 coins in the collection of the Dutch lawyer...

Money and banking in Europe, 1700-1850 : the formation of new financial systems -- Banking regulation and provincial banks in Spain -- The bourgeoisie and provincial banking : social origins of the new banking elite -- Banks of the issue as private companies : earnings and assets -- Provincial...

This paper explores what history can tell us about the interactions between macroprudential and monetary policy. Based on numerous historical documents, we show that liquidity ratios similar to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) were commonly used as monetary policy tools by central banks...