Presents Lauchlin Currie' views on the monetary aspects of the excess reserves problem which he gave at a board meeting on May 18, 1936.

Presents Lauchlin Currie's views on public spending as a means to recovery which originally appeared in a memorandum of April 6, 1936.

Looks at the excess reserves of 1937 in the USA, which were well over $2 billion. Discusses what criterion can be used to determine the adequacy or excessiveness of the volume of money and what the prospects would be for further expansion if no action were taken. Concludes that on balance,...

Presents a speech delivered by Lauchlin Currie in April 12, 1935 in Philadelphia on the objectives of the Banking Bill of 1935

Discusses, in a speech given by Lauchlin Currie at the Chicago Forum of the American Institute of Banking on February 24, 1938, behavior of deposits from the viewpoint of an individual banker. Looks at some of the functions and peculiar characteristics of banking which are mainly associated with...

Presents an address made by Lauchlin Currie before the Illinois Banking Association in Springfield, Illinois in May 1938. The paper discusses aspects of business and banking developments in 1936 and 1937. Concludes that the developments of 1936 led on the developments of 1937, which in turn are...

Presents a memorandum written by Lauchlin Currie and Martin Krost in which they attempt to state and clarify the issues involved in, and to present estimates of the magnitude of Federal income-increasing expenditures.

The author, Lauchlin Currie, suggests, in a memorandum written in February 1937, that there should be banking legislation with reference to foreign capital inflows. Gives a series of suggestions as to what might be needed.

Examines the evolution of the role of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), created in 1930 to promote co-operation between central banks, into the arena of the Third World debt problem. The bank has extended loans to developing countries, such as Mexico, Argentina, Nigeria and Brazil...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between banking development and the size of shadow economies by employing data on 137 countries over the period from 1995 to 2007. Both cross‐sectional and panel analysis suggest that an improvement in the development of the...