Financial History Review

1994 - 2024

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Volume 24, issue 3, 2017

Keynes and the dollar in 1933: the gold-buying program and exchange rate gyrations pp. 209-238

Sebastian Edwards

Financial crises at insurance companies: learning from the demise of the National Surety Company during the Great Depression pp. 239-264

Jonathan D. Rose

Bank networks and suspensions in the 1893 panic: evidence from the state banks and their correspondents in Kansas pp. 265-282

Brandon Dupont

Financial development and prehistoric geographical isolation: global evidence pp. 283-306

Oasis Kodila-Tedika, Simplice Asongu, Matthias Cinyabuguma and Vanessa Tchamyou

175 years of financial risks and returns in central banking: Danmarks Nationalbank, 1839–2014 pp. 307-329

Kim Abildgren

Historical reasons for the focus on broad monetary aggregates in post-World War II Britain and the ‘Seven Years War’ with the IMF pp. 331-356

Charles A. E. Goodhart and Duncan J. Needham

Volume 24, issue 2, 2017

Explaining the timing of tulipmania's boom and bust: historical context, sequestered capital and market signals pp. 121-141

James McClure and David Chandler Thomas

Novel market inefficiencies from early Victorian times pp. 143-165

Andrew Odlyzko

Co-movements in stock market returns, Ireland and London 1869–1929 pp. 167-184

Rebecca Stuart

The introduction of cashless wage payments and the spread of branch banking in post-war Germany pp. 185-207

Malte Krueger

Volume 24, issue 1, 2017

Introduction to the special issue on the financial and monetary history of South-East Europe pp. 1-2

Carsten Burhop and Clemens Jobst

A century of monetary reform in South-East Europe: from political autonomy to the gold standard, 1815–1910 pp. 3-21

Matthias Morys

The Hungarian risk: the premium on Hungarian state bonds, 1881–1914 pp. 23-52

Michael Pammer

Land ownership, tax farming and the social structure of local credit markets in the Ottoman Balkans, 1685–1855 pp. 53-81

Irfan Kokdas

Parish banking in informal credit markets: the business of private lending in early nineteenth-century Sweden pp. 83-102

Håkan Lindgren

A subject of interest: usurers on trial in early nineteenth-century France pp. 103-119

Erika Vause

Volume 23, issue 3, 2016

Economically irrational pricing of nineteenth-century British government bonds pp. 277-302

Andrew Odlyzko

Clearinghouse loan certificates as interbank loans in the United States, 1860–1913 pp. 303-324

Christopher Hoag

Market efficiency and government interventions in prewar Japanese rice futures markets pp. 325-346

Mikio Ito, Kiyotaka Maeda and Akihiko Noda

Social change and markets for urban credit: political elites as investors in urban annuities in sixteenth-century Ghent pp. 347-367

Jelten Y. P. Baguet

Volume 23, issue 2, 2016

Colonial New Jersey's provincial fiscal structure, 1704–1775: spending obligations, revenue sources, and tax burdens during peace and war pp. 133-163

Farley Grubb

Stock volatility, return jumps and uncertainty shocks during the Great Depression pp. 165-192

Gabriel Mathy

The timing of the popping: using the log-periodic power law model to predict the bursting of bubbles on financial markets pp. 193-217

Marcus Gustavsson, Daniel Levén and Hans Sjögren

Insurance models and climate risk assessments in a historical context pp. 219-243

Lars Fredrik Andersson and E. Carina H. Keskitalo

The openness of the London Goldsmiths’ Company in the second half of the seventeenth century: an empirical study pp. 245-271

Raphaelle Schwarzberg

Ali Kabiri, The Great Crash of 1929: A Reconciliation of Theory and Evidence, Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 256 pp. ISBN 9781137372888 hardcover and ebook) pp. 273-274

Frans Buelens

Pedro Tedde, El Banco de España y el Estado liberal (1847–1874) (Madrid: Gadir Editorial and Banco de España, 2015, 750 pp. ISBN 9788494363276 hardcover) pp. 275-276

Miguel Artola Blanco

Volume 23, issue 1, 2016

How to stabilize the banking system: lessons from the pre-1914 London money market pp. 1-20

Carolyn Sissoko

The original Operation Twist: the War Finance Corporation's war bond purchases, 1918–1920 pp. 21-46

James Butkiewicz and Mihaela Solcan

The British attempt to manage long-term interest rates in 1962–1964 pp. 47-70

William Allen

Capitalising on the Irish land question: land reform and state banking in Ireland, 1891–1938 pp. 71-109

Nathan Foley-Fisher and Eoin McLaughlin

Savings banks and working-class saving during the Swedish industrialisation pp. 111-132

Kristina Lilja and Dan Bäcklund

Volume 22, issue 3, 2015

Ups and downs of central bank independence from the Great Inflation to the Great Recession: theory, institutions and empirics pp. 259-289

Donato Masciandaro and Davide Romelli

The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s pp. 291-314

Leigh Gardner

Redemption theories and the value of American colonial paper money pp. 315-335

Ron Michener

Tweaking financial instruments: bills obligatory in sixteenth-century Antwerp pp. 337-361

Jeroen Puttevils

‘A new species of mony’: British Exchequer bills, 1701–1711 pp. 363-363

Richard A. Kleer

Volume 22, issue 2, 2015

From Basel to bailouts: forty years of international attempts to bolster bank safety pp. 133-156

Christopher Kobrak and Michael Troege

War, monetary reforms and the Belgian art market, 1945–1951 pp. 157-177

Géraldine David and Kim Oosterlinck

‘A new species of mony’: British Exchequer bills, 1701-1711 pp. 179-203

Richard A. Kleer

Put-call parity, the triple contract, and approaches to usury in medieval contracting pp. 205-233

Arthur J. Wilson and Geetae Kim

Competition and credit control: some personal reflections pp. 235-246

Charles A. E. Goodhart

Peter Borscheid and Niels Viggo Haueter (eds.), World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk Network (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 729 pp., £95) pp. 247-249

Adrian Leonard

Alessandro Roselli, Money and Trade Wars in Interwar Europe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-137-32699-7. Hardcover and Ebook) pp. 249-252

Piet Clement

South-Eastern European Monetary and Economic Statistics from the Nineteenth Century to World War II (Athens, Sofia, Bucharest and Vienna: Bank of Greece, Bulgarian National Bank, National Bank of Romania and Oesterreichische Nationalbank, 2014, 405 pp.) pp. 252-254

Ivo Maes

Hans van Wees, Ships, Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014, x + 213 pp., £58, ISBN 978-1-78076-686-7) pp. 255-257

Mark Peacock

Volume 22, issue 1, 2015

Identifying economic crises: insights from history pp. 1-18

Xavier De Scheemaekere, Kim Oosterlinck and Ariane Szafarz

‘Writes a fair hand and appears to be well qualified’: the recruitment of Bank of England clerks, 1800–1815 pp. 19-44

Anne L. Murphy

Capitalizing patriotism: the Liberty loans of World War I pp. 45-78

Sung Won Kang and Hugh Rockoff

The Mexican debt crisis redux: international interbank markets and financial crisis, 1977–1982 pp. 79-105

Sebastian Alvarez

Real estate transactions in ancient Israel: excavating embedded options utilizing modern finance pp. 107-132

Eliezer Z. Prisman