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)