Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Montserrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbonell-Esteller |
| SIGNATURE | CARBONELL-ESTELLER M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Montes de piedad and savings banks as microfinance institutions on the periphery of the financial system of mid-nineteenth-century Barcelona
This article departs from the dominant interpretation of montes de piedad as charitable pawnshops, typical of Catholic Europe, by framing the analysis of their activities as microfinance institutions. Fieldwork documents two cases in the industrial city of Barcelona during the mid-nineteenth century. The long established Monte de Piedad de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza de Barcelona (MPB) offered small loans to the most disadvantaged sectors, wit…
Using Microcredit and Restructuring Households
In the last third of the 1700s Barcelona was a city undergoing a major transformation. The regional specialization process that took place in Catalonia, and the intensification of exchange, generated spectacular economic growth and an unprecedented increase in population. The city of Barcelona tripled its population in just over seventy years; in 1787 it already had around 100,000 inhabitants. Immigration, both from the Pyrenean areas and from th…
Montes de piedad and savings banks as microfinance institutions on the periphery of the financial system of mid-nineteenth-century Barcelona
This article departs from the dominant interpretation of montes de piedad as charitable pawnshops, typical of Catholic Europe, by framing the analysis of their activities as microfinance institutions. Fieldwork documents two cases in the industrial city of Barcelona during the mid-nineteenth century. The long established Monte de Piedad de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza de Barcelona (MPB) offered small loans to the most disadvantaged sectors, wit…
Using Microcredit and Restructuring Households
In the last third of the 1700s Barcelona was a city undergoing a major transformation. The regional specialization process that took place in Catalonia, and the intensification of exchange, generated spectacular economic growth and an unprecedented increase in population. The city of Barcelona tripled its population in just over seventy years; in 1787 it already had around 100,000 inhabitants. Immigration, both from the Pyrenean areas and from th…
Using Microcredit and Restructuring Households
In the last third of the 1700s Barcelona was a city undergoing a major transformation. The regional specialization process that took place in Catalonia, and the intensification of exchange, generated spectacular economic growth and an unprecedented increase in population. The city of Barcelona tripled its population in just over seventy years; in 1787 it already had around 100,000 inhabitants. Immigration, both from the Pyrenean areas and from th…
Montes de piedad and savings banks as microfinance institutions on the periphery of the financial system of mid-nineteenth-century Barcelona
This article departs from the dominant interpretation of montes de piedad as charitable pawnshops, typical of Catholic Europe, by framing the analysis of their activities as microfinance institutions. Fieldwork documents two cases in the industrial city of Barcelona during the mid-nineteenth century. The long established Monte de Piedad de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza de Barcelona (MPB) offered small loans to the most disadvantaged sectors, wit…
Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work)