Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850

The pivotal role played by non-banking institutions in supporting the expansion of international trade after the Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870-1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products al...

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Autor principal: Llorca-Jaña,Manuel
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Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-528620150002000022015-12-15Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850Llorca-Jaña,Manuel Merchant-banking risk management nineteenth century Great Britain globalization The pivotal role played by non-banking institutions in supporting the expansion of international trade after the Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870-1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products all over the world. Without this form of credit, many international trade operations could not have taken place. Despite the important extant literature on merchant-banking, we knew little about how these international lenders protected themselves against the risks involved in advancing during this period, in particular for merchant-bankers who had diversified both geographically and by products. This paper is concerned with the risk protection strategies followed by one of these actors: Huth & Co., the first of these companies to globalize their operations. During this expansionary period they provided credit to many of their connections all over the world, thus becoming an important financial intermediary within world trade. This paper, therefore, provides the first account of the credit risk management strategies followed by this pioneer global lender.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.42 n.2 20152015-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862015000200002en10.4067/S0718-52862015000200002
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topic Merchant-banking
risk management
nineteenth century
Great Britain
globalization
spellingShingle Merchant-banking
risk management
nineteenth century
Great Britain
globalization
Llorca-Jaña,Manuel
Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
description The pivotal role played by non-banking institutions in supporting the expansion of international trade after the Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870-1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products all over the world. Without this form of credit, many international trade operations could not have taken place. Despite the important extant literature on merchant-banking, we knew little about how these international lenders protected themselves against the risks involved in advancing during this period, in particular for merchant-bankers who had diversified both geographically and by products. This paper is concerned with the risk protection strategies followed by one of these actors: Huth & Co., the first of these companies to globalize their operations. During this expansionary period they provided credit to many of their connections all over the world, thus becoming an important financial intermediary within world trade. This paper, therefore, provides the first account of the credit risk management strategies followed by this pioneer global lender.
author Llorca-Jaña,Manuel
author_facet Llorca-Jaña,Manuel
author_sort Llorca-Jaña,Manuel
title Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
title_short Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
title_full Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
title_fullStr Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
title_full_unstemmed Huth & Co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
title_sort huth & co.’s credit strategies: a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810-1850
publisher Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía
publishDate 2015
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