Overview

This volume addresses aspects of banking in 20th-century European market economies. It examines the historical role of banks in using domestic and foreign financial resources, showing how from the 1880s onwards, banks became an integral part of the capital market in continental Europe. The study analyzes the relationship between banks and industry, and the impacts on inflation and the crisis-prone interwar period. Comparative and quantitative methods reveal differences between the countries of North and Central Europe, with particular regard paid to the degree of state intervention in individual economies. The contributors explore networks of interlocking dictatorships and the effectiveness of banking legislation.

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Author:   Alice Teichova ,  Terry Gourvish ,  Agnes Pogány
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781852789770

ISBN 10:   1852789778
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Continuity and discontinuity in historical perspective: continuity and change in Swedish banking, Ragnhild Lundstrom; the Norwegian banking system before and after the interwar crises, Even Lange; origins of the banking system in interwar Czechoslovakia, Jan Hajek; banking and nationality in Hungary, 1867-1914, Zoltan Szasz; universal banking in the Slovene region, 1900-1945, Franjo Stiblar. Part 2 Central banks, the state and universal banks: production versus currency - the Danish Central Bank in the 1920s, Per H. Hansen; Norwegian banks and the legacy of the interwar years, Sverre Knutsen; the establishment of the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank - conflicting interests, Charlotte Natmessnig; the failure of crisis management - banking laws in interwar Austria, Gertrude Enderle-Burcel. Part 3 Universal banks and industry: banking system changes in the new Independent Czechoslovak Republic, Vlastislav Lacina; bank-industry relations in interwar Slovakia, Jozef Faltus; ""mushrooms and dinosaurs"" - Sieghart and the Boden-Credit-Anstalt in the 1920s, P.L. Cottrell; ""for better, for worse ..."" - the Credit-Anstalt and its customers in 1931, Dieter Stiefel; the Wiener Bank-Verein and its customers in the 1920s and 1930s, Desiree D. Verdonk; financing industrial companies in interwar Austria - working capital and liquidity, Alois Mosser; the industrial clientele of the Hungarian General Credit Bank, 1920-26, Agnes Pogany. Part 4 Bankers and bank-industry networks: networks of bankers and industrialists in interwar Greece, Margarita Dritsas; interlocking dictatorships between banks and industry in interwar Sweden, Jan Ottosson; interlocking directorships between commercial banks and industry in interwar Vienna, Peter Eigner."

Reviews

'... the overall standard of historical research and exposition is high and the volume represents a significant addition to our knowledge of how universal banks operate the main countries of Europe.' -- Michael Collins, Business History 'It covers ground of great interest to students of European economic history, particularly concerning the role of financial institutions in relatively late cases of industrialization.' -- John Hassan, The Manchester School

Author Information

Edited by the late Alice Teichova, formerly Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of East Anglia and Senior Research Associate, Business History Unit, London School of Economics, UK, Terry Gourvish, Director, Business History Unit, London School of Economics, UK and Agnes Pogány, Lecturer, Department of Economic History, Economics University of Budapest, Hungary

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