The Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto) was founded by the big French bank Paribas in 1902. In the first decades of 20th century, economic nationalism increased in Spain, as the bad relationship between Spanish and French directors of Banesto reflected. Finally, in 1927, during Primo de...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement...

The study of Spanish entrepreneurship from a historical perspective is in a very early stage. This paper goes beyond previous ones by specifying a multivariate model for Spain for the whole twentieth century. A Schumpeterian model with the addition of supply, demand and institutional control...