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The Pénzintézeti Központ was Established 100 Years Ago

Varga, Bence - 2017

On the occasion of the centenary of the Pénzintézeti Központ's establishment in 1916 as the first integrated supervisory “top-level organisation”, this study endeavours to outline the historical background and the stages of the formation of the institution, starting in the second half of...

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Alexander Allan Shand and Parr's Bank : roles as a director from 1909 to 1918

Hotori, Eiji - 2023

In this article, I use documents obtained from the NatWest Group archives to examine the work of Alexander Shand as a director of Parr's Bank during the period 1909-1918. A Scottish banker, Alexander Shand was recruited by the Japanese government early in his career to instruct Japanese...

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Il Monte Frodato. L’Intacco Rivanelli-Sacco (1748-1750) (The Defrauded Pawnshop. The Rivanelli-Sacco Etching (1748-1750))

Ferlito, Carmelo - 2015

Italian Abstract: Quello degli intacchi e` un problema che ha riguardato la vita del Monte di Pieta` , ma non solo di quello scaligero, sin dai suoi esordi. Si tratta di illegalita` attinenti propriamente i servigi svolti dai ministri piu` direttamente coinvolti nella gestione del banco di...

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Reaching for Yield : How Investors Amplify Housing Booms and Busts

Korevaar, Matthijs - 2021

of international financial markets …

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Glücksspiel oder ökonomisches Werturteil mit Folgen?

Schroeter, Felix - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 135-168

. Accordingly, speculative operations on markets are seen rather to determine economic values than to merely assess them. Through …

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“Civilized Dispossession” : Corporate Accumulation at the Dawn of Modern Capitalism

van Lent, Wim; Islam, Gazi; Chowdhury, Imran - 2021

Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves practices of legitimation that are related to coercive violence in complex ways. We examine the...

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The establishment of new market-places in East- Flanders, 1750-1900

Ronsijn, Wouter - EED research unit, department of History, Ghent University - 2012

This paper reconstructs the number of markets established in East-Flanders between 1750 and 1900, and tries to find … whether there was a link with economic ideas and the discourse on the effects of periodic markets: whether more markets were … established, and permissions to establish markets were more easily given, in times when free-trade ideas flourished. No clear …

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The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

purchasing power of industrial wages) that only the very rich could afford to buy these textiles: that the principal markets were …

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Factor Market Distortions Across Time, Space, and Sectors in China

Brandt, Loren; Tombe, Trevor; Zhu, Xiadong - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 1, pp. 39-58

In this paper, we measure TFP losses in China's non-agricultural economy associated with labour and capital misallocation across provinces and sectors between 1985-2007. We also decompose the overall loss into factor market distortions within provinces (between state and non-state sectors) and...

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The Paris Bourse and the international capital flows before 1914

Quennouëlle-Corre, Laure - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study wanted to pinpoint the different securities transactions’ channels in France, which are quite specific compared to other countries.As a matter of fact, the Paris Bourse could not be well explained without the free market and the deposit banks'transactions. This organisation leads to...

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