The project "Fashion, Luxury, Credit and Trust. From early modern to modern bankruptcies" was granted funding in 2017 to analyze the significance of the reform of the bankruptcy institute 1767-1830 for the modernization of the pre-industrial credit market. In 2018, the researchers wrote their papers and the project is presented at two international conferences. The project organized a well-attended session at ESSHC in Belfast and was invited to participate with a paper on the project at the two-day symposium "Wealth and Debt Accumulation in Informal Financial Markets. A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium". This was attended by a number of specialists in this topical research area.

Two additional contributors have been recruited: doctoral student Mia Skott, who already has her own funding from the Foundation and who is contributing another chapter to the anthology on the conditions in Stockholm regarding wallpaper makers. Dr. Riina Turunen and Professor Kustaa H. J. Vilkuna at the University of Helsinki. J. Vilkuna at the University of Jyväskylä who contributes a study on wigmakers, also funded.