Call for papers: The 2025 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Finance in History. The topic of the Datini-Ester seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress yearly organized by the "F. Datini" International Institute of Economic History and devoted in 2025 to Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries). The 2025 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Finance. The aims are encourage research on the development of financial institutions, risk and control of risk, financial practises and financial behaviour in different historical contexts. In particular topics are sovereign and public debt, money lending, banking, and insurance, relations between private creditors and debtors, exchange(s) and capital market(s), etc.

Made with contributions from:

Experts

• Guido Alfani (Bocconi University Milano)
• Francesco Ammannati (Firenze University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Lorenzini Marcella (Milano Statal University)
• Marsilio Claudio (Verona University)
• Skambraks Tanja (Mannheim University, Germany)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)

List of participants

1. Matthias Berlandi, “Preconditions for the Commercial Revolution 1 1th to 13th Century”
2. Timothy Cheuk Yin Chan, “The challenge of Chinese capitalists and the enactment of Hong Kong's first bank notes regulation in 1895”
3. David Demilly, “An illusory feeling of stability: bank failures in France in the 1920s”
4. Juliette Francoise, “A Colonial Affair Born of a Web of Debts: Paul Darifat's Bankruptcy in the Isle of France in the Late Eighteenth Century”
5. Antonio Iodice, “Solvency and Devotion: Fundraising Networks and Cash Flows Management in the 17th-Century Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land”
6. Jeroen Jozias Hendrik Kole, “Financial Interactions in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Antwerp: Insights from Probate Inventories and Inheritance Declarations”
7. Yibin Liu, “Hong Kong Banking Crises since 1865: Identification, Causes and Consequences”
8. José Julián Martín Mediero, “Risk and Profitability: The Dynamics of Power in 15th Century Maritime Taxation”
9. Alessio Maria Musella, “Risk Management Policies of Maritime Insurance Companies in Southern Italy (18th-19th Centuries)”
10. Ludovico Picciotto, “The Challenge of Public and Private Finance to Monetary Stability in the writings of Gasparo Scaruffi (1519-1584) and Bernardo Davanzati (1529-1606)”
11. Jean Lucas Ramos Veloso, “Financial management of slavery and abolition in Southeast Brazil (1850-1890)”
12. Juan Jose Rivas Moreno, “Revolution vs Evolution: Catholic institutions and the financing of the Manila Trade in the 17th and 18th centuries”
13. Eva Seuntjens, “Underpinning the Slave Economy: Risk management in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic World”
14. Yihuan Xu, “Rethinking the financial "Little Divergence" : rural credit in fourteenth-century England”