Centres and peripheries in banking:the historical development of financial markets
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Ashgate,
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Publisher Address: | Aldershot, England Burlington, VT |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Studies in banking and financial history |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 326 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780754661214 (alk. paper) 0754661210 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | F831 |
CLC: | F831.9-532 |
Call Number: | F831.9-532/C397/2002 |
Contents: |
"EABH." Based on papers given to the European Association for Banking History conference held in Stockholm in 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index. Global centres and networks -- Trade and finance in the Great War : German banks and neutral Scandinavia 1914-1918 / Boris Barth -- From the Levant to the city of London : mercantile credit in the Greek international commercial networks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Maria-Christina Chatziioannou and Gelina Harlaftis -- The city of London as a global financial centre, 1880-1939 : finance, foreign exchange, and the First World War / Ranald C. Michie -- The rise of Hong Kong and Tokyo as international financial centres after 1950 / Catherine R. Schenk -- Banks as integrators -- Between the dollar-sterling gold points : USA and Britain, 1791-1914 / Lawrence H. Officer -- The confidence in a new currency : the introduction of the mark in Germany 1871-1876 / Dieter Lindenlaub -- The Banque de France and the emergence of a national financial market in France during the nineteenth century / Alain Plessis -- Capital movements, exchange rates and market integration : the Baltic area 1850-1913 / Lennart Schön -- The role of banks in mercantile and industrial credit -- Personal and impersonal exchange : the role of reputation in banking : some evidence from nineteenth and early twentieth century banks' archives / Monika Pohle Fraser -- The political economy of commercial banking in Sweden : a bird's-eye view of the relations between industry and banking over 150 years / Ulf Olsson and Jan Jörnmark -- Merchants and credit in the southern and eastern Baltic areas, 1500-1800 / Michael North -- Lender of last resort in a peripheral economy with a fixed exchange rate : financial crises and monetary policy in Sweden under the silver and gold standards, 1834-1913 / Anders Ögren -- Bank archives and history -- The archives of a German commercial bank as a mirror of time / Reinhard Frost -- Preservation of electronic information : a case study of the information systems department at Svenska Handelsbanken / Anastasia Victorsson -- Using history and storytelling in mergers and branding / Pontus Staunstrup. |