Securitization of Sovereign Debt: Corporations as a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism in Britain, 1694-1750
Stephen Quinn
No 200701, Working Papers from Texas Christian University, Department of Economics
Abstract:
This paper shows how Britain used privileged corporations to simultaneously securitize and restructure sovereign debt. Combining the sale of privileges with securitization allowed for multi-party acceptance of sovereign debt restructuring in an early emerging market country. As a result, the Bank of England, the South Sea Company, and the East India Company came to hold 80 percent of the British national debt by 1720. After 1720, Britain dismantled securitization and moved debt to a standard bond market.
Keywords: economic history; Britain; banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2008-03
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