Centres and peripheries in banking : the historical development of financial markets / edited by Philip L. Cottrell, Even Lange, and Ulf Olsson ; co-edited by Iain L. Fraser and Monika Pohle Fraser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cottrell, P. L., 1944-

European Association for Banking History.

Series:

Studies in banking history

Studies in banking and financial history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking, International--History--Congresses.

Banks and banking, International.

Financial institutions--History--Congresses.

Financial institutions.

Banks and banking--History--Congresses.

Banks and banking.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Centers and peripheries in banking

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"EABH."

Based on papers given to the European Association for Banking History conference held in Stockholm in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780754661214

0754661210

OCLC:

72988371