Regulation, taxation and the development of the German universal banking system, 1884–1913

Caroline Fohlin

European Review of Economic History, 2002, vol. 6, issue 2, 221-254

Abstract: Previous researchers argue that the legal and regulatory environment helped shape the German financial system in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the damaging effects of the stock exchange law of 1896. This article finds that the stock exchange law of 1896 exerted little measurable impact on the growth and concentration of the universal banking system or on the business turnover of universal banks relative to securities markets. The article also shows that the English commercial banking sector and the German universal banking sector underwent similar movements toward concentration between 1884 and 1920 (both accelerating after 1912), despite no corresponding regulatory changes in England – further suggesting that consolidation of universal banking resulted from factors other than the 1896 law.

Date: 2002
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