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The COFILA project investigates the historical credit systems in Spanish America, challenging the notion that modern banking was necessary for economic stability. It examines the role of colonial private credit and public finance, particularly focusing on the influence of religious institutions and women's contribution…
Did the Spanish Empire bequeath weak credit markets to Spanish American Republics?
Scholars cite a colonial legacy of extractive institutions as the root cause of financial and fiscal crises in Spanish America since Independence (1808-20s).
Colonial credit was archaic.
Modern European private banking institutions only arrived in Spanish America after 1850.
The credit sector remained unstable, failed to service large parts of the population, and the cost of capital (the interest rate) was very hi…
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