Institutions and European trade: merchant guilds, 1000-1800

Abstract

1. Merchant guilds, efficiency, and social capital 2. What was a merchant guild? 3. Local merchant guilds 4. Alien merchant guilds and companies 5. Merchant guilds and rulers 6. Commercial security 7. Contract enforcement 8. Principal-agent problems 9. Information 10. Price volatility 11. Institutions, social capital and economic development.