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Prof. dr. Oscar Gelderblom

 
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Prof. dr. Oscar Gelderblom

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Highlighted publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Trivellato, F. (2018). The Business History of the Preindustrial World: Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis. Business History, 61(2), 225-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1426750
Gelderblom, O. C. (2013). Cities of Commerce. The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650. Princeton University Press.
Gelderblom, O. C., & Grafe, R. (2010). The Rise, and Fall of the Merchant Guilds: Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Premodern Europe. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 40(4), 477. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.4.477
van Bavel, B. J. P., & Gelderblom, O. (2009). The economic origins of cleanliness in the Dutch Golden Age. Past & Present, 205(1), 41-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp041
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/189132/Van%2520Bavel%2520and%2520Gelderblom%2520on%2520Dutch%2520Cleanliness%2520%28Past%2520and%2520Present%2520205%2520November%25202009%29.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs (1556-1611). Enterprise & Society, 4(4), 606-639.
Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & Hup, M. (2018). Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries, 1500-1800. In M. Lorenzini, C. Lorandini, & DM. Coffman (Eds.), Financing in Europe: Evolution, Coexistence and Complementarity of Lending Practices from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (pp. 163 - 194). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58493-5_7
Gelderblom, O. C. (2000). Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden en de opkomst van de Amsterdamse stapelmarkt (1578-1630). Verloren.
Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2004). Completing a Financial Revolution. The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612. The Journal of Economic History, 64(3), 641-672. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070400292X
Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2004). Completing a Financial Revolution. The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612. The Journal of Economic History, 64(3), 641-672. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070400292X
Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic. Ashgate.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic. Ashgate.
Dari-Mattiacci, G., Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & Perotti, E. (2017). The Emergence of the Corporate Form. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 33(2), 193-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewx002
Dari-Mattiacci, G., Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & Perotti, E. (2017). The Emergence of the Corporate Form. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 33(2), 193-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewx002

Publications

2021

Scholarly publications

van Bochove, C., Colvin, C., & Gelderblom, O. (2021). Detecting the Function of Finance through History: An Essay in Celebration of the Work of Joost Jonker. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 18(3), 125-166. https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11076

2019

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & de Jong, A. (2019). Learning how to manage risk by hedging: the VOC insurance contract of 1613. European Review of Economic History, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez003

2018

Scholarly publications

Jonker, J. P. B., & Gelderblom, O. C. (2018). Rentes, tontines, actions. In C. Secretan, & W. Frijhoff (Eds.), Dictionnaire des Pays Bas au Siècle d'Or (pp. 622-623). CNRS.
Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & Hup, M. (2018). Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries, 1500-1800. In M. Lorenzini, C. Lorandini, & DM. Coffman (Eds.), Financing in Europe: Evolution, Coexistence and Complementarity of Lending Practices from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (pp. 163 - 194). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58493-5_7
Gelderblom, O. C., & Trivellato, F. (2018). The Business History of the Preindustrial World: Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis. Business History, 61(2), 225-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1426750

2017

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2017). Enter the Ghost. Cashless payments in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1800. In Money, Currency and Crisis: In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000 Routledge.
Dari-Mattiacci, G., Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & Perotti, E. (2017). The Emergence of the Corporate Form. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 33(2), 193-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewx002

2016

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2016). Financiële zelfredzaamheid in Nederland sinds 1750. Economisch Statistische Berichten, 101(4731), 244-247. https://esb.nu/esb/20013205/financiele-zelfredzaamheid-in-nederland-sinds-1750
Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J., & Kool, C. J. M. (2016). Direct finance in the Dutch Golden Age. Economic history review, 69(4), 1178-1198. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12285

Professional publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2016). Merchants from the Southern Netherlands (1578–1630). Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-01000002

2015

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2015). Waar hebben we de financiële sector eigenlijk voor nodig? TPEdigitaal, 9(1), 34-49.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/395549/waar_hebben_we_de_financiele_sector_eigenlijk_voor_nodig.pdf?sequence=1

2014

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. (2014). Thinking about Cities of Commerce. A Rejoinder. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 11(4), 119-131. https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.173
Deneweth, H., Gelderblom, O., & Jonker, J. (2014). Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands. Journal of Economic Development, 39(1), 79-110. [32]. https://jed.cau.ac.kr/archives/39-1.html
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/305703/4.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2014). Book Review: Sheilagh Ogilvie, Institutions and European Trade. Merchants Guilds, 1000-1800. Business History, 56(6), 1026-1028. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.828425
Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2014). Early Capitalism in the Low Countries. In L. Neal, & J. Williamson (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Capitalism (pp. 314-356). (The Rise of Capitalism; No. Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139095099.011

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Lagoutte, N. (2014). Bling bling in de Republiek. Kleio, 3.

2013

Scholarly publications

Jonker, J. P. B., & Gelderblom, O. C. (2013). Mirroring different follies, the character of the 1720 speculation in the Dutch Republic. In W. N. Goetzmann, K. G. Rouwenhorst, C. Labio, & T. Young (Eds.), “The Great Mirror of Folly": Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 (pp. 121-140). Yale University Press.
Gelderblom, O. C., Jong, de, A., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2013). The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623. Journal of Economic History, 73(4), 1050-1076. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050713000879
Gelderblom, O. C. (2013). Cities of Commerce. The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650. Princeton University Press.

Other output

Gelderblom, O. C. (Author), & Jonker, J. P. B. (Author). (2013). Spel van de Gouden Eeuw 1.0. Software, Monkeybizniz.

2012

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2012). Low Countries Finance, 1348–1700. In D. W. Arner (Ed.), Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure (pp. 175-183). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397873-8.00007-4
Gelderblom, O. C., & Heijden, van der, M. P. C. (2012). Review article: Trends en perspectieven in internationale tijdschriften op sociaaleconomisch historisch gebied (2010 en 2011). Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 9(2), 101-123. https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.268
Gelderblom, O. C. (2012). Book review: Menno Witteveen, Antonio van Diemen. De opkomst van de VOC in Azië. BMGN - The Low Countries Historical Review, 127, 50-52.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386220/Witteveen_van_Diemen.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2012). Book review: Ekkehard Westermann en Markus A. Denzel, Das Kaufmannsnotizbuch des Matthäus Schwarz aus Augsburg von 1548. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 125, 439-440. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2012.3.B15
Schalk, R., Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2012). Schipperen op de Aziatische vaart. De financiering van de VOC kamer Enkhuizen, 1602-1622. BMGN - The Low Countries Historical Review, 127(4), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.8225
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/347908/Schipperen_op_de_Aziatische_vaart.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O., & Jonker, J. (2012). Innovatiegolf doorbreekt de kredietcrisis. De Telegraaf.

2011

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2011). The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, 1250-1650. In D. Ma, & J. L. van Zanden (Eds.), Law and Long-Term Economic Change: A Eurasian Perspective (pp. 244-276). Stanford University Press.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2011). Book review: Marjolein van Dekken, Brouwen, branden en bedienen. Werkende vrouwen in de Nederlandse dranknijverheid, 1500-1800. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 124(2), 272-273. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2011.2.B14
Gelderblom, O. C., Jonker, J. P. B., & de Jong, A. (2011). An Admiralty for Asia. Isaac le Maire and conflicting conceptions about the corporate governance of the VOC. In The Origins Of Shareholder Advocacy (pp. 29-60). Palgrave Macmillan.
Bogart, D., Drelichman, M., Gelderblom, O. C., & Rosenthal, J-L. (2011). State and Private Institutions. In S. Broadberry, & K. O'Rourke (Eds.), Unifying the European Experience (pp. 70-95). Cambridge UP.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2011). Entrepreneurs in the Dutch Golden Age. In W. Baumol, D. Landes, & J. Mokyr (Eds.), The Invention of Enterprise. Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (pp. 156-182). Princeton UP.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386206/The_Invention_of_Enterprise_Entrepreneurship.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2011). Public Finance and Economic Growth. The Case of Holland in the Seventeenth Century. Journal of Economic History, 71(1), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050711000015

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O., & Jonker, J. (2011). Fiscal form of Dutch treat that worked well for 150 years. Financial Times.

Other output

Deneweth, H. S. M., Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2011). Microfinance and the decline of poverty. Evidence from pre-industrial Europe. Paper presented at Sixth Low Countries Conference, Antwerp.

2010

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2010). Book review: Karel Davids, The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership: Technology, Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800. 2 vols. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 123(1), 124-125. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2010.1.B10
Gelderblom, O. C., & Grafe, R. (2010). The Rise, and Fall of the Merchant Guilds: Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Premodern Europe. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 40(4), 477. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.4.477

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Schalk, R. (2010). De boedelinventaris van Olff Stevenszoon. Kleio, 31-33.

2009

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). Book review: Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan, The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists. The Economic History Review, 62(4), 1025.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425609/Pages_from_The_Economic_History_Review_2009_GELDERBLOM_The_self_perception_of_early_modern_capitalists_Edited_by_Margaret_C_.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). The Organization of Long-Distance Trade in England and the Dutch Republic, 1550-1650. In O. C. Gelderblom (Ed.), The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic (pp. 223-254). Ashgate.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386205/The_Political_Economy_of_the_Dutch_Republic_9_The_Organization_of_Long_Distance_Trade_in_England_and_the_Dutch_Rep..._.pdf?sequence=1
Jonker, J. P. B., & Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). ‘With a view to hold, the emergence of institutional investors on the Amsterdam securities market during the 17th and 18th centuries’. In J. Atack, & L. Neal (Eds.), The Evolution of Financial Markets and Institutions (pp. 71-98). cambridge universoty press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386203/With_a_view_to_hold.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). Introduction. In O. C. Gelderblom (Ed.), The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic (pp. 1-18). Ashgate.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386202/The_Political_Economy_of_the_Dutch_Republic_Introduction_.pdf?sequence=1
van Bavel, B. J. P., & Gelderblom, O. (2009). The economic origins of cleanliness in the Dutch Golden Age. Past & Present, 205(1), 41-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp041
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/189132/Van%2520Bavel%2520and%2520Gelderblom%2520on%2520Dutch%2520Cleanliness%2520%28Past%2520and%2520Present%2520205%2520November%25202009%29.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2009). The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic. Ashgate.

2008

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2008). Handel en instituties. Aanzet, 24(1), 5-8.

2007

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2007). Foreign merchant communities in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1350-1650). In D. Calabi, & S. T. Christensen (Eds.), Cities and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700. (pp. 154-174). Cambridge University Press.

2005

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2005). Amsterdam as the Cradle of Modern Futures Trading and Options Trading, 1550-1650. In R. K. G. Goetzmann, W.N. (Ed.), The Origins of Value, the Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (pp. 189-206). Oxford UP.

2004

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2004). The Decline of Fairs and Merchant Guilds in the Low Countries, 1250-1650. In Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis (Vol. 7, pp. 199-230)
Gelderblom, O. C. (2004). De economische en juridische positie van buitenlandse kooplieden in Amsterdam in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw. In L. lucassen (Ed.), Amsterdammer worden. Migranten, hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600-2000 (pp. 169-188). Vossius Pers.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2004). Coping with the Perils of the Sea: The Last Voyage of 'Vrouw Maria' in 1771. The International Journal of Maritime History, 15(2), `95-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/084387140301500206
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386225/Perils_of_the_Sea.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C., & Jonker, J. P. B. (2004). Completing a Financial Revolution. The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612. The Journal of Economic History, 64(3), 641-672. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070400292X

2003

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). From Antwerp to Amsterdam. The Contribution of Merchants from the Southern Netherlands to the Growth of the Amsterdam Market (c.1540-1609). Review. A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 26(3), 000-000.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386233/From_Antwerp_to_Amsterdam.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). Continuiteit en verandering in de handelsgeschiedenis van Amsterdam. BMGN - The Low Countries Historical Review, 118(1), 49-57.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386228/Continuiteit_en_verandering.pdf?sequence=1
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). De economische en juridische positie van buitenlandse kooplieden in Amsterdam in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw. In L. Lucaccen (Ed.), Amsterdammer worden. Migranten, hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600-2000 (pp. 169-188). Vossiuspers UvA.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs (1556-1611). Enterprise & Society, 4(4), 606-639.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). Book review: Diasporas within a Diaspora. Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World Maritime Empires (1540-1740). NEHA-bulletin, 17, 49-50.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2003). Book review: Industrializing English Law. Entrepreneurship and Business Organization 1720-1844. NEHA-bulletin, 17, 28-30.

2002

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Book review: J. de Bruijn-van der Helm, F. van Buuren, M. van Donkelaar, G. Gerritsen-Geywitz, en O. Lie (red.) in samenwerking met R. Jansen-Sieben en J. van Aelst, Een koopman in Venetië. Een Italiaans-Nederlands gespreksboekje uit de late Middeleeuwen. NEHA-bulletin, 16(1), 25.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Uitdagingen voor de vroegmoderne ondernemersgeschiedenis. NEHA-bulletin, 2, 69-81.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Book review: M. Bulut, Ottoman-Dutch Economic Relations in the Early Modern Period 1571-1699. NEHA-bulletin, 16(1), 26-27.

Professional publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Een Antwerpse 'cruydenier' in Amsterdam: Hans Martens (1555-1613). Oud Utrecht, 16-33.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Met open armen ontvangen? Immigratie in de Republiek (1585-1685). Spiegel Historiael, 7/8, 291-297.

Popularising publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2002). Hollands welvaren. Immigratie in de Republiek (1585-1685). Spiegel Historiael, 37(7-8), 292-296.

2001

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2001). Book review: Archangel. Nederlandse ondernemers in Rusland 1550-1785. NEHA-bulletin, 15, 59-60.

2000

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (2000). Antwerp Merchants in Amsterdam after the Revolt (1578-1630). In P. Stabel, B. Blondé, & A. Greve (Eds.), International Trade in the Low Countries (14th-16th Centuries) (pp. 223-242). Garant.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2000). Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden en de opkomst van de Amsterdamse stapelmarkt (1578-1630). Verloren.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2000). Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden en de opkomst van de Amsterdamse stapelmarkt (1578-1630). [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Verloren.
Gelderblom, O. C. (2000). De deelname van Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden aan het openbare leven van Amsterdam (1578-1650). In C. M. Lesger, & L. Noordegraaf (Eds.), Ondernemers en bestuurders. Economie en politiek in de Noordelijke Nederlanden in de late Middeleeuwen en vroegmoderne tijd (pp. 237-258). NEHA.

1998

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C. (1998). Book review: Van suikermolen tot grootbedrijf. Technische vernieuwing in de Java-suikerindustrie in de negentiende eeuw. NEHA-bulletin, 2, 113-114.

1997

Scholarly publications

Gelderblom, O. C., & van Zanden, J. L. (1997). Vroegmodern ondernemerschap in Nederland. NEHA-bulletin, 1997, 3-15.
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