The decline in the British bank population since 1810 obeys a law of negative compound interest

J. J. Bissell

Business History, 2017, vol. 59, issue 5, 802-813

Abstract: Two models by Garnett et al. [J. Bus. Hist. 57(1):182-202 (2015)] for the organisational demography of British banks are explored analytically: the exponential model; and the agent-based system (ABM) governed by probabilistic interactions. Exact expressions for ABM expectation values are derived, revealing first that bank creations obey a ‘birth’ process, and second, that one of the ABM hypotheses may be discarded. The expectation values are used to demonstrate that beneath its stochastic implementation, the ABM model is a discrete analogue of the exponential model, meaning that the decline in the British bank population obeys a law of negative compound interest.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1301430

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