Financial History Review

1994 - 2024

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Volume 21, issue 3, 2014

Portfolio choice and longevity risk in the late seventeenth century: a re-examination of the first English tontine pp. 225-258

Moshe Milevsky

Monetary authority independence and stability in medieval Korea: the Koryŏ monetary system through four centuries of East Asian transformations, 918-1392 pp. 259-280

Jun Seong Ho

The success of the Bordeaux Mont-de-Piété, 1801–1913 pp. 281-299

Guillaume Pastureau and Bertrand Blancheton

Public or private interests? The investment behaviour of public officials in Antwerp during the early modern period pp. 301-326

Nicolas De Vijlder and Michael Limberger

Volume 21, issue 2, 2014

Big Bang in the City of London: an intentional revolution or an accident? pp. 111-137

Christopher Bellringer and Ranald Michie

Was the Gibson Paradox for real? A Wicksellian study of the relationship between interest rates and prices pp. 139-163

Jagjit Chadha and Morris Perlman

The winding-up of the Ayr Bank, 1772–1827 pp. 165-190

Paul Kosmetatos

Mortgages for machinery: credit and industrial investment in pre-World War I Brazil pp. 191-212

Gustavo Cortes, Renato L. Marcondes and Maria Dolores Diaz

Kazuhiko Yago, The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements, Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy (London: Routledge, 2013, 240 pp.; ISBN 978-0-415-63524-0) pp. 213-215

Hubert Bonin

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth, Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-994427-9, £25.99) pp. 215-218

Aaron Graham

Bonin Hubert: French Banks and the Greek ‘Niche Market’ mid-1880s–1950s (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013) pp. 218-220

Korinna Schonarl

Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki and Ranald C. Michie, The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-964632-6) pp. 220-223

Michael Schiltz

Volume 21, issue 1, 2014

Informal rural credit markets and interlinked transactions in the district of late Ottoman Haifa, 1890–1915 pp. 5-24

Stefania Ecchia

An anatomy of financial crises in Norway, 1830–2010 pp. 25-57

Ola Grytten and John Hunnes

The Bank of England, Montagu Norman and the internationalisation of Anglo-Irish monetary relations, 1922–1943 pp. 59-76

Eoin Drea

Variation in organizational form across lines of property insurance: Sweden, 1913–1939 pp. 77-101

Josef Lilljegren and Lars Fredrik Andersson

Christopher Adolph, Bankers, Bureaucrats, and Central Bank Politics: The Myth of Neutrality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 357 pp., $99.00, ISBN 978-1-107-03261-3) pp. 103-106

Mikael Wendschlag

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, A Europe Made of Money: The Emergence of the European Monetary System (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012, viii + 359 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-5083-9) pp. 106-108

Ivo Maes

Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, 480 pp., $29.95/£19.95, ISBN 978-0691-14909-7) pp. 108-110

Anna Missiaia

Volume 20, issue 3, 2013

Understanding rating addiction: US courts and the origins of rating agencies' regulatory license (1900–1940) pp. 237-257

Marc Flandreau and Joanna Kinga Sławatyniec

Learning by doing: the failure of the 1697 Malt Lottery Loan pp. 259-277

Georges Gallais-Hamonno and Christian Rietsch

Price manipulation at the NYSE and the 1899 battle for Brooklyn Rapid Transit shares pp. 279-303

Timothy A. Kruse and Steven K. Todd

Imperfect but true competition: innovation and profitability in Portuguese banking during the golden age (1950–1973) pp. 305-333

Luciano Amaral

The seasonal demand for multiple monies in Manchuria: re-examining Zhang Zuolin's government's economic policy during the 1920s pp. 335-359

Miriam Kaminishi

Alessandro Stanziani, Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, ix + 313 pp., £52.25, ISBN 978-1-107-00386-6) pp. 360-362

Patrice Baubeau

Volume 20, issue 2, 2013

Financial intermediation and late development in Meiji Japan, 1868 to 1912 pp. 111-135

John Tang

Registration and credit in seventeenth-century England pp. 137-162

Seiichiro Ito

Malmö diskont 1817: an institutional analysis of a banking crisis pp. 163-182

Tom Kärrlander

Savings bank depositors in a crisis: Glasgow 1847 and 1857 pp. 183-208

Duncan Ross

‘Unwept, unhonoured and unsung’: Britain's import surcharge, 1964–1966, and currency crisis management pp. 209-229

Richard Roberts

Kenneth D. Garbade, Birth of a Market: The US Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to the Great Depression (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012, xii + 393 pp., $50, ISBN 978-0-262-01637-7) - Julia C. Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, 313 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5) pp. 231-233

Franklin Noll

Harold James, Making the European Monetary Union: The Role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the Origins of the European Central Bank (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012, 567 pp., ISBN 978-0-674-06683-0) pp. 233-236

Ivo Maes

Volume 20, issue 1, 2013

Deriving the railway mania pp. 1-27

Gareth Campbell

Competition among the exchanges before the SEC: was the NYSE a natural hegemon? pp. 29-48

Eugene White

An experiment in banking the poor: the Irish Mont-de-Piété, c. 1830–18501 pp. 49-72

Eoin McLaughlin

The determinants of investment returns in the fire insurance industry: the case of Sweden, 1903–1939 pp. 73-89

Lars Fredrik Andersson, Magnus Lindmark, Mike Adams and Vineet Upreti

Liquidity preference and interest-bearing money: the Ottoman Empire, 1840–1851 pp. 91-102

Richard Burdekin and Meric Keskinel

Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay (eds.), The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688–1815 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011, 272 pp., £45.00) - Carl Wennerlind, Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, 360 pp., $39.95/£29.95) pp. 103-106

Aaron Graham

Martin Allen, Mints and Money in Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press2012, 576 pp., £120, ISBN 9781107014947) pp. 106-109

David Bholat

Volume 19, issue 3, 2012

Gold sterilization and the recession of 1937–19381 pp. 249-267

Douglas Irwin

Those dishonest goldsmiths1 pp. 269-288

George Selgin

Panics, payments disruptions and the Bank of England before 18261 pp. 289-309

John James

Long-run fiscal dominance in Argentina, 1875–19901 pp. 311-335

María Gadea, Marcela Sabate and Isabel Sanz

Wars, inflation and stock market returns in France, 1870–19451 pp. 337-361

David Le Bris

Wars, inflation and stock market returns in France, 1870–1945 - ERRATUM pp. 362-362

David Le Bris

Steffen E. Andersen, The Evolution of Nordic Finance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 289 pp., £68) pp. 363-365

Håkan Lobell

Charles Goodhart, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: The History of the Early Years, 1974–1997 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 624 pp., £95, ISBN 9781107007239) pp. 365-368

Ivo Maes

Caroline Fohlin, Mobilizing Money: How the World's Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 280 pp., £65, $99, ISBN 9780521810210) pp. 368-370

Carsten Burhop

Volume 19, issue 2, 2012

The international propagation of the financial crisis of 2008 and a comparison with 19311 pp. 123-147

William Allen and Richhild Moessner

Financial development and sectoral output growth in nineteenth-century Germany1 pp. 149-174

Katharina Diekmann and Frank Westermann

‘The folly of particulars’: the political economy of the South Sea Bubble pp. 175-197

Richard Kleer

The last major Irish bank failure before 20081 pp. 199-217

Cormac Ó Gráda

Interwar Romanian sovereign bonds: the impact of diplomacy, politics and the economy1 pp. 219-244

Kim Oosterlinck and Loredana Ureche-Rangau

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis, Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 269 pp., £60) pp. 245-247

Matthias Morys

Volume 19, issue 1, 2012

The vanishing banker1 pp. 1-19

Marc Flandreau

Still tied by golden fetters: the global response to the US recession of 1937–19381 pp. 21-48

Scott Urban and Tobias Straumann

From market to state: wealth transfers in the Portuguese nationalisations of the 1970s1 pp. 49-74

Rui Alpalhão

Insurance, size and exposure to actuarial risk: empirical evidence from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Knappschaften1 pp. 75-116

Tobias Alexander Jopp

James W. Cummings, Towards Modern Public Finance: The American War with Mexico, 1846–1848 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009, 226 pp., £60, $99) pp. 117-119

Abraham Broder

Forrest Capie, The Bank of England, 1950s to 1979 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 890 pp., £95, $150, ISBN 9780521192828) pp. 119-121

David Cobham