de Boyer des Roches, Jérôme; Gomez Betancourt, Rebeca - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
In the midst of the US Civil War, in 1863, the Northern states of the federal Union established the National Banking System. It contributed to financing the war effort and to the circulation of banknotes. Following the civil war, this system was retained and extended across the reunified...