| Lending to the Borrower from Hell Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.; Taxation; Debts Public; Finance Public; What the loans and defaults of a sixteenth-century Spanish king can tell us about sovereign debt today Mauricio Drelichman is associate professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and a fellow in the Institutions, Organizations, and Growth program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Hans-Joachim Voth is ICREA Research Professor in the Economics Department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where he is also a member of the Centre for Research in International Economics. He is the author of Time and Work in England during the Industrial Revolution and coauthor of Prometheus Shackled . |