Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Atack, Jeremy; Neal, Larry

Cambridge University Press

04/2011

496

Mole

Inglês

9780521154765

15 a 20 dias

720

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List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Financial innovations and crises: the view backwards from Northern Rock Jeremy Atack; 2. An economic explanation of the early Bank of Amsterdam, debasement, bills of exchange and the emergence of the first Central Bank Stephen Quinn and William Roberds; 3. With a view to hold: the emergence of institutional investors on the Amsterdam securities market during the 17th and 18th centuries Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker; 4. Was John Law's system a bubble? The Mississippi Bubble revisited Francois R. Velde; 5. Sir George Caswall vs. the Duke of Portland: financial contracts and litigation in the wake of the South Sea Bubble Gary S. Shea; 6. The Bell Jar: commercial interest rates between two revolutions, 1688-1789 Marc Flandreau, Christophe Galimard, Clemens Jobst and Pilar Nogues Marco; 7. Comparing the UK and US financial systems, 1790-1830 Richard Sylla; 8. Natural experiments in financial reform in the nineteenth century, the Davis and Gallman analysis Larry Neal; 9. Regulatory changes and the development of the US banking market, 1870-1914: a study of profit rates and risk in national banks Richard J. Sullivan; 10. Anticipating the stock market crash of 1929: the view from the floor of the stock exchange Eugene N. White; 11. The development of 'non-traditional' open market operations: lessons from FDR's Silver Purchase Program Richard C. K. Burdekin and Marc D. Weidenmier; 12. The interwar shocks to US-Cuban trade relations: a view through sugar company stock price data Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte; 13. Central Bank reaction functions during the inter-war Gold Standard: a view from the periphery Kirsten Wandschneider; 14. Monetary policy and equity price booms: historical cross-country evidence Michael Bordo and David Wheelock; 15. Lessons from history for the twenty-first century Larry Neal; Index.