Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century
研究了18世纪荷兰银行家如何将投资者资金引入加勒比种植园，通过证券化安排解决代理问题，但信贷过度导致市场崩溃和低效重组。
In the second half of the eighteenth century, Dutch bankers channeled investors’ funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties . Bankers oversaw plantations’ cash flows and placed mortgage debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records from banker F. W. Hudig. During the boom, debt contracts and their securitization were an effective solution for planters, bankers, and investors. However, the market crashed after an oversupply of credit. This led to inefficient restructuring due to debt overhang.