1636 AD–1637 AD
Dutch tulip contracts and price collapse
Money, banking & finance · Mercados y riesgo
The boom and collapse of 1636–1637 involved private forward contracts on bulbs, often without immediate delivery or margin requirements. Academic evidence debates scope, prices, and effects; this entry records a localised episode of contractual risk and renegotiation, not the myth of an instant ruin of the whole Dutch economy or one lesson about “irrationality.”
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- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2017-08
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