Financial History Review

1994 - 2025

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Volume 32, issue 3, 2025

So oddly calm: democratization and stock market liquidity in interwar Spain, 1914–1936 pp. 245-278

Stefano Battilossi and Stefan Oliver Houpt

Branch banking and regional financial markets: evidence from prewar Japan pp. 279-318

Mathias Hoffmann, Tetsuji Okazaki and Toshihiro Okubo

Inflation and energy price shocks: lessons from the 1970s pp. 319-348

Matteo Gomellini, Dario Pellegrino and Francesco Corsello

Explaining premiums for Spanish and Mexican silver coins in Qing and Republican China pp. 349-379

Warren B. Bailey and Bin Zhao

Volume 32, issue 2, 2025

Employee stock ownership during the Great Depression: the varying impacts of ESOPs on output growth and worker utilization pp. 107-158

Lillian Gaeto Trotter

The impact of hurricane strikes on Caribbean sovereign bond returns pp. 159-196

Joel Huesler

The mechanics of finance private: Genoese enterprises and market functions in Seville, 1460–1530 pp. 197-223

Andres Mesa

Private lenders of last resort: the debates around central banking in Brazil in the 1920s pp. 224-244

Lúcia Regina Centurião

Volume 32, issue 1, 2025

Dividend policy and portfolio size – Swedish listed companies 1912–1978 pp. 1-25

Kristian Rydqvist

An exception that proves the rule: Japanese monetary policy under the classical gold standard, 1897–1914 pp. 26-42

Shinji Takagi

The ‘internal financing mechanism’ and (hyper)inflation in the wartime Japanese Empire pp. 43-81

Tsz Ho Wong

The ‘political indifference’ of the World Bank: the case of Brazil, 1948‒1988 pp. 82-106

Claudia Kedar

Volume 31, issue 3, 2024

The money market in transition: from city-based market arbitrage to a central banking system in nineteenth-century Spain pp. 245-272

Emma M. Iglesias and J. Carles Maixé-Altés

The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing: from gold standard to hoarded commodity (1919–1968) pp. 273-303

Fergal O'Connor and Brian M. Lucey

The economics of small change: resolving coinage challenges in medieval Europe pp. 304-329

Roger Svensson and Andreas Westermark

Re-examining democratization's impact on foreign borrowing costs during the first era of globalization pp. 330-346

Michael Funke, Tai-kuang Ho and Andrew Tsang

Volume 31, issue 2, 2024

Who owned Citibank? Familiarity bias and business network influences on stock purchases, 1925–1929 pp. 123-176

Charles W. Calomiris and Elliot S. M. Oh

Assessing the 1921–1922 federal financial rescue: the War Finance Corporation Bank lending program pp. 177-197

James L. Butkiewicz and Mihaela Solcan

Saving for a stormy day? The Jamaican Government Savings Bank and the precautionary savings motive pp. 198-227

Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl

Nonmonetary and monetary explanations for inflation: the UK in the 1970s pp. 228-244

Michael J. Oliver

Volume 31, issue 1, 2024

Investor reactions to legislative liberalization and the run-up in British share prices, 1844 to 1845 pp. 1-35

Vaska Atta-Darkua, Robert F. Bruner and Scott C. Miller

Media tone and trading activity on the Sydney Stock Exchange 1901–1950 pp. 36-66

Grant Fleming, Liu, Zhangxin (Frank), David Merrett and Simon Ville

Mutual marine insurance during the Industrial Revolution era pp. 67-93

Peter M. Solar

Central bank digital currencies: an old tale with a new chapter pp. 94-122

Michael D. Bordo and William Roberds

Volume 30, issue 3, 2023

1930: first modern crisis pp. 277-307

Gary Gorton, Toomas Laarits and Tyler Muir

Public debt as private liquidity: the Poincaré experience (1926–1929) pp. 308-329

Aurélien Espic

Credit networks and business dynamics in a viceregal capital: Santafé de Bogotá in the age of Charles III pp. 330-354

Oscar M. Granados and James V. Torres

Liquidating government debt and creating a secondary asset market: trading patterns, market behavior and prices on government liabilities in Sweden, c. 1719–1765 pp. 355-379

Peter Ericsson and Patrik Winton

Volume 30, issue 2, 2023

Financing industrial corporations in a developing economy: panel evidence from Imperial Russia pp. 125-161

Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger

Adam Smith's reversionary annuity: money's worth, default options and auto-enrollment pp. 162-197

Moshe Milevsky

The meandering trajectories of financial innovations: commercial paper and its uses in sixteenth-century Lyon's trading networks pp. 198-230

Nadia Matringe

Political violence and financial markets in Tsarist Russia pp. 231-275

Christopher Hartwell

Volume 30, issue 1, 2023

The consolidation of public banking in Spain: from the 1970s crisis to the 2008 crisis pp. 1-28

Yolanda Blasco-Martel, Joaquim Cuevas and Maria Carme Riera-Prunera

Monthly credit from and deposits in Swedish commercial banks, 1875-2020 pp. 29-50

Lars Ahnland

Central banks’ interventions in exchange rate markets during the international gold standard: Italy 1880–1913 pp. 51-73

Paolo Di Martino

Pre-welfare state provision and adverse selection: enrolment in a Swedish nationwide health insurance society pp. 74-99

Lars Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson and Josef Lilljegren

‘Propitious contrast’: Romanian borrowing in a Balkan mirror, 1878–1913 pp. 100-123

Andreea-Alexandra Maerean, Maja Pedersen and Paul Sharp

Volume 29, issue 3, 2022

Stock exchange price currents, financial information and market transparency: an introduction pp. 271-286

Joost Jonker and Angelo Riva

Prices: sources, problems, solutions pp. 287-309

Peter M. Solar

De-coding the image of the firm: secret reserves and internal financing in the German chemical industry, c. 1890–1916 pp. 310-325

Frederic Steinfeld

Helsinki Stock Exchange: trading and listed securities, 1912–1981 pp. 326-341

Mika Vaihekoski

Stock exchange regulation and the official price lists of the stock exchanges of Brussels and Antwerp, 1801–1935 pp. 342-357

Johan Poukens and Frans Buelens

Market access and transparency: the Genoa and Milan stock exchanges from Italian Unification to World War I pp. 358-375

Angelo Riva

From free-for-all to self-governing monopoly: market organization and price information at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1796–1940 pp. 376-391

Abe de Jong, Joost Jonker and Johan Poukens

Volume 29, issue 2, 2022

Going Dutch: monetary policy in the Netherlands during the interwar gold standard, 1925–1936 pp. 121-151

Philip T. Fliers and Christopher Colvin

The limits of control: corporate ownership and control of German joint-stock firms, 1869–1945 pp. 152-197

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer and Andreas Neumayer

Health and safety regulations and stock returns: evidence from the 1974 Swedish legislative lottery pp. 198-218

Linus Siming

Securities trading in an emerging market: Indonesia, 1890s–1940s pp. 219-246

Pierre van der Eng

Banking crises, banking mortality and the structuring of the banking market in Switzerland, 1850–2000 pp. 247-270

Thibaud Giddey and Malik Mazbouri

Volume 29, issue 1, 2022

Financing Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in Thailand pp. 1-28

Panarat Anamwathana and Gregg Huff

A complicated puzzle: spinsters, widows and credit in Sweden (1790–1910) pp. 29-51

Matteo Pompermaier

Gold rush: the political economy of the Yugoslavian gold exchange standard pp. 52-71

Aleksandar Radan Jevtic

The 1783 proposal for a readymade note at the Bank of England pp. 72-97

David M. Batt

The Bank of England's profits across 300 years: wars, financial crises and distribution pp. 98-119

Mike Anson and Forrest Capie