Financial History Review

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2011

The joint production of confidence: lessons from nineteenth-century US commercial banks for twenty-first-century Euro area governments1 pp. 249-276

Adalbert Winkler

Are blue chip stock market indices good proxies for all-shares market indices? The case of the Brussels Stock Exchange 1833–20051 pp. 277-308

Jan Annaert, Frans Buelens, Ludo Cuyvers, Marc De Ceuster, Marc Deloof and Ann De Schepper

Shadow interest rates in Stockholm and the integration of early financial markets, 1660–1685: was Heckscher right?1 pp. 309-329

Rodney Edvinsson

Global shocks, economic growth and financial crises: 120 years of New Zealand experience pp. 331-355

Michael Bordo, David Hargreaves and Mizuho Kida

Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla (eds.), Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 368 pp., hardback $110, paperback $35) pp. 357-360

Larry Neal

John Singleton, Central Banking in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 350 pp., hardback £60, $99) pp. 360-362

Piet Clement

Tobias Straumann, Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 414 pp., hardback £55, $90) pp. 362-364

Olivier Accominotti

Volume 18, issue 2, 2011

The changing role of central banks pp. 135-154

C. A. E. Goodhart

On the information content of ratings: an analysis of the origin of Moody's stock and bond ratings pp. 155-190

Berry K. Wilson

Information asymmetries and conflict of interest during the Baring crisis, 1880–18901 pp. 191-215

Juan Flores Zendejas

Dividend policy in Norwegian banking before 1914 pp. 217-241

Lars Fredrik Øksendal

Helen J. Paul, The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2011, 176 pp., £90.00) pp. 243-245

Aaron Graham

Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 215 pp., £14.99) pp. 245-247

Ali Coskun Tuncer

Volume 18, issue 1, 2011

Banking crises and the international monetary system in the Great Depression and now1 pp. 1-20

Richhild Moessner and William Allen

Amsterdam and London as financial centers in the eighteenth century1 pp. 21-46

Ann Carlos and Larry Neal

The long-run determinants of British capital exports, 1870–1913 pp. 47-69

Mauro Rota and Francesco Schettino

Bills, notes and money in early New South Wales, 1788–1822 pp. 71-90

Frank Decker

The absence of public exchange banks in medieval and early modern Flanders and Brabant (1400–1800): a historical anomaly to be explained pp. 91-117

Erik Aerts

Allan H. Meltzer, A History of the Federal Reserve, volume 1: 1913–1951 (University of Chicago Press, 2003, 808 pp., cloth: $86); volume 2, book 1: 1951–1969 (2009, 682 pp., cloth: $75); volume 2, book 2: 1970–1986 (2009, 629 pp., cloth: $75)1 pp. 123-126

Eric Monnet

Catherine Schenk, The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945–1992 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 437 pp., £60, $99) pp. 126-127

Ivo Maes

Ivo Maes, A Century of Macroeconomic and Monetary Thought at the National Bank of Belgium (Brussels: National Bank of Belgium, 2010, 154 pp.) pp. 128-130

Pablo Martin-Aceña

Anne L. Murphy, The Origins of English Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 258 pp., cloth, £55.00) pp. 130-132

Aaron Graham

Herman Van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt, A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009, 494 pp., EUR 63.99) pp. 132-134

Piet Clement

Volume 17, issue 2, 2010

The Great Depression analogy1 pp. 127-140

Michael Bordo and Harold James

A challenge to triumphant optimists? A blue chips index for the Paris stock exchange, 1854–2007 pp. 141-183

David Le Bris and Pierre Hautcoeur

The case of the undying debt pp. 185-209

Francois Velde

French Stock exchanges and regulation during World War II1 pp. 211-237

Kim Oosterlinck

The role of private bankers in the US payments system, 1835-18651 pp. 239-262

Jane Knodell

Philip L. Cottrell, Iain L. Fraser and Monika Pohle Fraser (eds.), East Meets West – Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire (London: Ashgate, 2008, 214 pp., £55) pp. 263-265

Yücel Terzibaşoğlu

Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009, 352 pp., cloth: $75/£52, paper: $29.95/£20.95) pp. 265-267

Geoffrey Wood

Karl Gratzer and Dieter Stiefel (eds.),History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective (Huddinge: Söderstörns högskola, 2008, 332 pp.) pp. 267-268

Pierre Hautcoeur

Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh, Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010, 264 pp., $40.00/£29.95) pp. 268-271

Scott Urban

Research on financial and monetary history based on the records of the Bank of Japan Archives: a note1 pp. 273-280

Mari Ohnuki, Daisuke Murakami and Masanori Takashima

Volume 17, issue 1, 2010

Banking crises yesterday and today1 pp. 3-12

Charles Calomiris

Endowments, fiscal federalism and the cost of capital for states: evidence from Brazil, 1891–19301 pp. 13-50

André Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio

Going public in interwar Britain1 pp. 51-71

David Chambers

Financial market liquidity, returns and market growth: evidence from Bolsa and Börse, 1902–1925 pp. 73-98

Lyndon Moore

All fired up: the growth of fire insurance in Sweden, 1830–19501 pp. 99-117

Magnus Lindmark and Lars Fredrik Andersson

John H. Wood, A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 458 pp., paperback £18.99/$34.99) pp. 119-121

Piet Clement

Gerald D. Feldman and Peter Hertner (eds.), Finance and Modernization: A Transnational and Transcontinental Perspective of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Ashgate, 2008, 300 pp., £65) pp. 121-123

Juan Flores Zendejas

Catherine Schenk (ed.), Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges: Historical Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 216 pp., £60) pp. 123-124

Atish Ghosh

Ranald C. Michie, Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815–1914 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009, 288 pp., £60/$99) pp. 124-126

Michel Lutfalla

Volume 16, issue 2, 2009

ABSTRACTS pp. 105-109

Anonymous

‘The last acre and sixpence’: views on bank liability regimes in nineteenth-century Britain pp. 111-127

John Turner

The evolution of the Hong Kong currency board during global exchange rate instability, 1967–19731 pp. 129-156

Catherine Schenk

Learning from one another's mistakes: investment trusts in the UK and the US, 1868–1940 pp. 157-181

Janette Rutterford

French exchange rate management in the 1920s pp. 183-201

Bertrand Blancheton and Samuel Maveyraud

Alan D. Morrison and William J. WilhelmJr, Investment Banking. Institutions, Politics, and Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 347 pp. £14.99 paperback) pp. 249-251

Giandomenico Piluso

William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner and Mira Wilkins, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, xxiv + 487 pp. US$80) pp. 251-252

Leslie Hannah

Cécile Omnès, La gestion du personnel au Crédit lyonnais de 1863 à 1939. Une fonction en devenir (genèse, maturation et rationalisation) (Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2007, 451 pp. €56.60) pp. 252-255

Samir Saul

Claudio Borio, Gianni Toniolo and Piet Clement (eds.), Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xi + 245 pp. £45; also available in eBook format) pp. 255-257

Ivo Maes

Robert L. Hetzel, The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xvi + 390 pp. £35; also available in eBook format) pp. 257-259

Ivo Maes

Volume 16, issue 1, 2009

ABSTRACTS pp. 1-4

Anonymous

Central bankers as good neighbours: US money doctors in Latin America during the 1940s pp. 5-25

Eric Helleiner

Weavers of profit: terminating building societies in Lancashire, 1780–1840 pp. 27-45

Rosine Hart

Financial revolution and economic modernisation in Sweden pp. 47-71

Anders Ögren

Textile trade and trade credit in Spain, 1840–1913 pp. 73-94

Marc Prat

Philip L. Cottrell, Evan Lange and Ulf Olsson (eds.), Centres and Peripheries in Banking: the Historical Development of Financial Markets (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, xiv + 326pp. 27 figs. 33 tabs. £60) pp. 95-96

Stefano Ugolini

Georges Galllais-Hamonno and Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (eds.), Le marché financier français au XIXe siècle (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007, volume 1 (526 pp.), volume 2 (640 pp.), € 40 each) pp. 96-98

Hubert Bonin

Carlos Marichal, Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars between Spain, Britain and France, 1760–1810 (Cambridge University Press, 2007, xiv + 318 pp. $85) pp. 98-100

Abraham Broder

Bruno Théret (ed.), La monnaie dévoilée pas ses crises, volume 1: Crises monétaires d'hier et d'aujourd'hui; volume 2: Crises monétaires en Allemagne et en Russie au XXe siècle (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2007, 512 and 296 pp. €29 and €23) pp. 100-103

Willem Wolters