The Evolution of Financial Institutions and Markets in Twentieth Century Europe
Aldershot. 1995
Editors
Youssef Cassis
Gerald D. Feldman
Ulf Olsson
The 1980es witnessed widespread deregulation in major international financial centres and an increased globalization of financial activities. This was one of the first books to place in its historical perspective the question of the relationship between finance and the real economy. A wide range of institutions and markets is covered, including central, commercial, savings and investment banks, stock markets and other capital markets. The book will appeal to economic historians as well as to economists and financial analysts.
Table of contents
- The Bank of France from the early 20thCentury to the 1950s (Alain Plessis)
- Banking Crises and Lenders of Last Resort: Denmark in the 1920s and the 1990s (Per H. Hansen)
- Commercial Banks in Belgium, 1935-90 (Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk)
- Commercial Banks in the 20thCentury Switzerland (Youssef Cassis)
- Phases in the Development of the Norwegian Banking System, 1880-1980 (Sverre Knutsen)
- Overcoming Institutional Barriers: Financial Networks in Sweden, 1910-90 (Mats Larsson)
- German Savings Banks as Instruments of Regional Development up to the Second World War (Paul Thomes)
- The National Saving Banks as an Instrument of Economic Policy: Portugal in the Interwar Period (Jaime Reis)
- Spoilt for Choice? Banking Concentration and the Structure of the Dutch Capital Market. 1900-40 (Joost Jonker)
- The New Issue Market as a Source of Finance for the UK Brewing and Iron and Steel Industries, 1870-1913 (Katherine Watson)
- Bankenmacht: Universal Banking and German Industry in Historical Perspective (Harald Wixforth and Dieter Ziegler)
- Information, Collateral and British Bank Lending in the 1930s (Duncan M. Ross)
- Finance in the Regions: The Case of England after 1945 (Francesca Carnevali)
- Banks and Small Enterprises in France (Michel Lescure)