The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems
The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems

Author: Jack Revell

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9781349141944

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The financial systems of developed countries are evolving at a faster rate than ever before in the direction of market solutions to all problems, while many securities markets have become global in scope. The thirteen essays in this volume consist of papers read by leading European academics in the fields of banking and finance. The first four chapters deal with the evolution in general terms, while the remaining chapters are concerned with the impact of the changes on different parts of the financial system.

The Age of Central Banks
The Age of Central Banks

Author: Curzio Giannini

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0857932144

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Curzio had one of the most fertile and original minds ever to be deployed on questions relating, first, to the interactions between Central Banks, private sector financial intermediaries and the government, and second to the working of the international monetary system in general, and to the role of the IMF specifically within that. His approach has been to apply a theory of history , which provides a beautifully written and illuminating book, much easier and nicer to read and more rounded than the limited mathematical models that have so monopolised academia in recent decades. From the foreword by Charles A.E. Goodhart Curzio Giannini s history of the evolution of central banks illustrates how the most relevant institutional developments have taken place at times of widespread confidence crises and in response to deflationary pressures. The eminent and highly-renowned author provides an analytical perspective to study the evolution of central banking as an endogenous response to crisis and to the ever increasing needs of economic growth. The key argument of the analysis is that crucial innovations in the payment technology (from the invention of coinage to the development of electronic money) could not have taken place without an institution i.e. the central bank - that could preserve confidence in the instruments used as money. According to Curzio Giannini s neo-institutionalist methodological approach, social institutions are, in fact, essential in the coordination of individual decisions as they minimize transaction costs, overcome information asymmetries and deal with incomplete contracts. This enlightening and revealing historical theory perspective on central banking will prove a thought-provoking read for academic and institutional economists, economic historians, and economic policymakers involved in the task of crafting a new institutional arrangement for central banking in the globalized economy.

The Evolution of the Money Market 1385-1915
The Evolution of the Money Market 1385-1915

Author: Ellis T. Powell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 1351670514

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First published in 1916, this work is still recognised as a valuable historical and analytical study of the rise and development of finance as a centralised, coordinated force during the period 1385 to 1915. It examines the evolution of the modern money market, and describes amongst other things the decline of the anti-usury sentiment, the beginnings of banking, and the early stock exchange. In detail the author goes on to discuss everything from the rise of the joint stock banks to the post-banking evolution.

A History of Modern Banks of Issue
A History of Modern Banks of Issue

Author: Charles Arthur Conant

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781230255842

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...system, it is a security which has followed the ups and downs of government paper money. There was neither purpose nor pretence of maintaining the notes of national banks at parity with coin while the notes of the government itself and the bonds by which bank-notes were secured were depreciated. Banknotes remained from 1864 to 1879 at par with government obligations because those obligations themselves were far below par in coin. If the banks issuing circulation upon securities were the model for the national banks of to-day, the banks of State which existed before the war were the models and the prototypes of the Federal treasury management under the rtgime of legal tender paper. Their issues were not banknotes in the sense in which banking currency is opposed to a government paper currency, but they were simply the bills of credit of the State resting upon the credit of the State as completely as the paper roubles of the Bank of Russia. The fact that they were hardly ever maintained at par in coin, in spite of the great wealth and undoubted honesty and good faith of the people of the various commonwealths, is a practical demonstration of the folly of attempting to do a banking business upon general credit without quick assets. The lesson of the history of the State banking systems, reduced to its simplest terms, is the success of the systems based upon the banking principle and the failure of the systems based upon the deposit of securities, like the national banking system, or based simply upon the public credit, like the government currency system of the United States. One of the essential errors of early banking in the United States was the undue expansion of credit upon slender resources. It is an error common in a new country and...