Banking Crashes of the Middle Age in Italy: A Minsky-Kindleberger Theory Case?

Seurot François
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Seurot François: CREDES, Université Nancy 2

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2002, vol. 12, issue 4, 27

Abstract: The aim of this paper is both to use Kindleberger's thesis to analyse banking crashes of the Middle Age and to give proof of whether the medieval banks do or do not raise the same theoretical analysis as the modern banks. This is of importance, because the theories that are invoked by Kindleberger concern banks very different from the medieval banks. If the financial instability of the 14th century is similar to that of the 19th or the 20th century, this leads to amend the impact and generality of Kindleberger's instability model.L'objet de cet article est d'utiliser la théorie de Kindleberger pour analyser les krachs bancaires du Moyen Age et vérifier si les banques médiévales relèvent ou non du même appareil théorique que les banques modernes. Cela représente un enjeu important car les banques médiévales sont très différentes de celles qu'étudie Kindleberger. Si l'instabilité financière du XIVe siècle est comparable à celle des XIXe et XXe siècles, cela nous amène à reconsidérer l'impact et la généralité du modèle de Kindleberger.

Keywords: Middle-Age; Banking Crises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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