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Author Lange, Even

Title Centres and Peripheries in Banking : the Historical Development of Financial Markets
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages)
Series Studies in Banking and Financial History
Studies in banking history.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Global Centres and Networks; 1 Trade and Finance in the Great War: German Banks and Neutral Scandinavia 1914-1918; 2 From the Levant to the City of London: Mercantile Credit in the Greek International Commercial Networks of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 3 The City of London as a Global Financial Centre, 1880-1939: Finance, Foreign Exchange, and the First World War; 4 The Rise of Hong Kong and Tokyo as International Financial Centres after 1950
Part II Banks as Integrators5 Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: USA and Britain, 1791-1914; 6 The Confidence in a New Currency: The Introduction of the Mark in Germany 1871-1876; 7 The Banque de France and the Emergence of a National Financial Market in France during the Nineteenth Century; 8 Capital Movements, Exchange Rates and Market Integration: The Baltic Area 1850-1913; Part III The Role of Banks in Mercantile and Industrial Credit; 9 Personal and Impersonal Exchange. The Role of Reputation in Banking: Some Evidence from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Banks' Archives
10 The Political Economy of Commercial Banking in Sweden: A Bird's-eye View of the Relations between Industry and Banking over 150 Years11 Merchants and Credit in the Southern and Eastern Baltic Areas, 1500-1800; 12 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; Part IV Bank Archives and History; 13 The Archives of a German Commercial Bank as a Mirror of Time
14 Preservation of Electronic Information: A Case Study of the Information Systems Department at Svenska Handelsbanken15 Nordic and Local: Using History and Storytelling in Mergers and Branding; Bibliography; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Olsson, Ulf
Fraser, Iain L
Cottrell, Philip L
Fraser, Ms Monika Pohle
ISBN 9781351952941
1351952943