Financial intermediation in the Argentine pampas: Trade and financial services from rural merchants (Argentina, 1900-1930)

LLUCH ANDREA

Utrecht

Workshop; Workshop Intermediaries and intermediation in capital markets: a global historical approach; 2010

Utrecht University

This paper explores how merchants served as financial intermediaries, looking at their policies, their techniques and screening mechanisms (direct and indirect). Its conclusions provide an insight into specific rural credit intermediation in the Argentine pampas at the beginning of the twentieth century.