two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche … Bankvereeniging. Whilst the first escaped the crisis relatively unscathed, the second required assistance from the Nederlandsche Bank …, the Dutch central bank. A new and detailed narrative of one episode of the crisis using as yet unused primary sources is …

incentivesof bank managers toward assuming greater risk inan effort to maintain former profit levels. For example,banks might make …