The Evolution of Financial Institutions and Markets in Twentieth-Century Europe

by Cassis, Youssef; Feldman, Gerald D.; Olsson, Ulf; European Association for Banking History

• ISBN13: 9781859281277
• ISBN10: 1859281273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Scolar Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
Youssef Cassis
Gerald D. Feldman
Ulf Olsson
Part I Banking Institutions
The Bank of France from the early 20th Century to the 1950s	9	(11)
Alain Plessis
Banking Crises and Lenders of Last Resort: Denmark in the 1920s and the 1990s	20	(27)
Per H. Hansen
Commercial Banks in Belgium, 1935-90	47	(17)
G. Kurgan-van Hentenryk
Commercial Banks in 20th-Century Switzerland	64	(14)
Youssef Cassis
Phases in the Development of the Norwegian Banking System, 1880-1980	78	(44)
Sverre Knutsen
Overcoming Institutional Barriers: Financial Networks in Sweden, 1910-90	122	(21)
Mats Larsson
German Savings Banks as Instruments of Regional Development up to the Second World War	143	(20)
Paul Thomes
The National Savings Bank as an Instrument of Economic Policy: Portugal in the Interwar Period	163	(24)
Jaime Reis
Part II Banks, Markets and Industry
Spoilt for Choice? Banking Concentration and the Structure of the Dutch Capital Market, 1900-40	187	(22)
Joost Jonker
The New Issue Market as a Source of Finance for the UK Brewing and Iron and Steel Industries, 1870-1913	209	(40)
Katherine Watson
Bankenmacht: Universal Banking and German Industry in Historical Perspective	249	(24)
Harald Wixforth
Dieter Ziegler
Information, Collateral and British Bank Lending in the 1930s	273	(22)
Duncan M. Ross
Finance in the Regions: The Case of England after 1945	295	(20)
Francesca Carnevali
Banks and Small Enterprises in France	315	(14)
Michel Lescure
Index	329