Flexibility and Diversification Face to the Risk: The Investments of Merchants and Patricians in the Venetian Republic (Xvi-Xviii)

Posted: 22 Jul 2008

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Paola Lanaro

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management

Date Written: July, 21 2008

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show the strategies of the Venetian Patricians (and those from the Mainland) face to the risk. The diversifications of investments (in all the economic sectors, as agriculture, manufacture, trade, public and private finance) and the flexibility in the domestic and foreign markets were the result of a specific economic system where the economic actors refused the specialization in the economic activity.

A reviewed version will be published in: Du fatalisme ¿ l'exploitation du risque. Le risque et les ¿conomies m¿diterran¿ennes du Moyen ¿ge ¿ nos jours

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Economic history, Republic of Venice, Merchants, Investments.

JEL Classification: N22, N42, N82

Suggested Citation

Lanaro, Paola, Flexibility and Diversification Face to the Risk: The Investments of Merchants and Patricians in the Venetian Republic (Xvi-Xviii) (July, 21 2008). University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1165486

Paola Lanaro

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management ( email )

San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873
Venice, 30121
Italy

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