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In the Eye of a Storm : Manhattan's Money Center Banks During the International Financial Crisis of 1931
Richardson, Gary - 2011
In the summer of 1931, a financial crisis began in Austria, spread to Germany, forced Britain to abandon the gold standard, crossed the Atlantic, and afflicted financial institutions in the United States. This article describes how banks in New York City, the central money market of the United...
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The Evolution of the Financial Stability Mandate : From its Origins to the Present Day
Toniolo, Gianni - 2015
history of six countries where there is sufficient information, three in Europe (England, France, and Italy) and three in the …
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The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2021
. Britain's control of the seas meant that it was much less affected than other nations, such as France and the United States …. Explicit welfare calculations are provided for four countries, Britain, France, Sweden and the United States. Welfare losses … France, and between 1.7-1.8% per annum in Britain. On the other hand, the conflict helped pave the way for the more liberal …
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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - 2022
the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …
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"To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking" : How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision
White, Eugene N. - 2011
Although bank supervision under the National Banking System exercised a light hand and panics were frequent, depositor losses were minimal. Double liability induced shareholders to carefully monitor bank managers and voluntarily liquidate banks early if they appeared to be in trouble. Inducing...
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The Development of Opacity in U.S. Banking
Gorton, Gary B. - 2013
An examination of U.S. banking history shows that economically efficient private bank money requires that information-revealing securities markets for bank liabilities be closed. That is, banks are optimally opaque, which is why they are regulated and examined. I show this by examining the...
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Banks, Politics, and Political Parties : From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts
Lu, Qian - 2015
The United States was the first nation to allow open access to the corporate form to its citizens. The state of Massachusetts was not only one of the first states to provide its members with legally sanctioned tools to create organizations and enable open access but, on a per capita basis, had...
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Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2010
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Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals : Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2009
Early American firms were shaped by contemporary social conceptions of appropriate horizontal power relations inside the firm and the Federalist era bank was shaped by these conceptions. The Federalist era debate on the corporation was much broader than how shareholders would treat with one...
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Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline : Competition and Bank Survivorship During the Great Depression
Carlson, Mark A. - 2007
Because California was a pioneer in the development of intrastate branching, we use its experience during the 1920s and 1930s to assess the effects of the expansion of large-scale, branch-banking networks on competition and the stability of banking systems. Using a new database of individual...
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