took hold in Hungarian economic history between 1867 and 1938 – an era divided into five distinct periods –; in other words …

Despite its significance in monetary history, the Maria Theresa thaler (or taler) is little known outside numismatic … circles. The paper describes this coin’s history, which the paper argues is the reverse to the obverse of the rise of national … monies. The coin circulated in Africa, the Levant and Arabia as a full-bodied commodity money until governments one …

divergence in commodity prices in late-medieval Europe. This paper seeks to show that monetary factors also played a role in … determining or influencing both prices and real wages in medieval Europe, both before and after the Black Death. The evidence … differences in relative prices can be explained as well by real factors. Thus the core theme of the paper: 'money matters', though …

This paper aims to trace the history of central banking in pre-WWII Greece. To this end, we first study the country … leveraged. The analysis of the composition of money supply and its long run behaviour suggests that monetary base variations … were the proximate determinants of money supply movements, whereas money multiplier had a minimum impact. Central banking …

-century Amsterdam, Europe's financial capital at the time. An Anglo-Dutch premium auction consists of an English auction followed by a …