My PhD research looked at small firms in the Netherlands in the early 20th century, the problems they faced, and how they attempted to solve them.
My current research investigates the development of financial (mostly credit) markets in the Low Countries and their changing relation with newly emerging financial intermediaries (commercial banks, savings banks, etc) in the 19th and 20th centuries.
A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands, with Amaury de Vicq. Forthcoming in the Economic History Review
Looking for Dark Matter Credit: Exploring Notarial Credit Markets in Antwerp and its Surroundings ca. 1835. With Rogier van Kooten, (In E. Dermineur & M. Pompermaier (Eds.), Credit Networks in The Preindustrial World. A Social Network Analysis Approach. Palgrave Macmillan.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67117-3_12
Inheritance Taxation Records in the Netherlands in 1921: The Memories Database, with Amaury de Vicq (Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences) https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10038
Exploring Modern Bank Penetration: Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century Netherlands, with Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, and Amaury de Vicq (Economic History Review) https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13218
Getting a Foot in the Door: Small-Firm Credit and Interest Group Politics in the Netherlands, 1900–1927 (Enterprise & Society) https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.53
Introduction to the Tafel v-bis Dataset: Death Duty Summary Information for The Netherlands, 1921, with Amaury de Vicq (Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences) https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-BJA10007
Small Firms, Politics, and Credit in the Netherlands, 1900-1980 (PhD Thesis) https://doi.org/10.33540/830
The impact of the 1848 crisis on bank and traditional lending in Antwerp, with Maite de Sola Perea and Marc Deloof
A false start? The functioning and impact of the first Public Loan Guarantee Fund, The Amsterdam Scheme o1915
Trains and Loans: The arrival of trains and peer-to-peer credit market integration in 19th century Antwerp, with Rogier van Kooten and Maite de Sola Perea
Mortgages for Migrants: Access to credit in 19th century Antwerp.
Savings Banks and Economic Development in Belgium and the Netherlands
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