作者：Boston University; Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要：This article assesses how the government of Porfirio Diaz (1876-1910) negotiated sovereign loans. Mexico was a serial defaulter that established a good reputation and issued bonds abroad at progressively better conditions. Based on new archival material, the article demonstrates that borrowing terms improved not only because of sounder fundamentals, but also due to the efforts of high officials to negotiate with debt underwriters. The Mexicans never accepted a patron bank and used the offers f...
作者：Johns Hopkins University
摘要：This article uses a new dataset of 330 slaving voyages to examine terms of credit issued for British American slave sales between 1755 and 1807. It shows that credit terms consistently varied between American colonies, and that slave ship captains considered these differences when electing where to land enslaved Africans. Our dataset also shows that credit terms were highly erratic, especially in the last quarter of the century, contributing to both surges and collapses in the slave trade to i...
作者：University of Oxford; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：This paper presents two wage-series for unskilled English women workers 1260 1850, one based on daily wages and one on the daily remuneration implied in annual contracts. The series are compared with each other and with evidence for men, informing several debates. Our findings suggest first that women servants did not share the post-Black Death golden age and so offer little support for a girl-powered economic breakthrough and second that during the industrial revolution, women who were unable...
