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Economic Agency Relations in Venetian Mediterranean Trade, 1350-1450
The institutional design of agency relations in medieval long-distance trade has received considerable attention in both economic history and institutional economics. My research focuses on the transcultural elements of Venetian trade relationships with the Islamic Levant and Crete in the late medieval period. On the basis of merchant letters and judicial documents, I shall develop a theoretical framework that adequately accounts for the observed historical trade patterns. This is intended as an extension of existing institutional theories of impersonal exchange that are confined to mono-cultural environments.
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Franz-Julius Morche, MSc
Research Associate
Speyererstrasse 4-6
69115 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 54 78 58
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CV
Since 10/ 2008
Research Associate, University of Heidelberg
09/ 2008
MSc Economic History (Research), London School of Economics and Political Science
06/ 2007
B. A. (Hons.) European Social and Political Studies, University College London
07/ 2006
Diplôme du Programme International du Premier Cycle, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
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