Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
About the Book Series
Current interest in the history of money and banking remains strong and it is opportune to survey developments both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This set provides historical analysis which incorporates research from the early twentieth century onwards in a form that is both accessible to students of money & banking and economists, economic historians and bankers
This set re-issues 38 volumes originally published between 1900 and 2000. It charts the history of early banking, discusses banking in the UK, Europe,Japan and the USA, analyses banks as multinationals, the UK mortgage market, banking policy and structure and examines specific sectors such as gilts and gold.
Investment Banking in England 1856-1881 (RLE Banking & Finance): Volume Two
1st Edition
By Phillip Cottrell
March 07, 2014
This and the previous volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International Financial Society this book provides an ...
Islamic Financial Markets (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodney Wilson
March 07, 2014
When it was originally published this volume was the first comprehensive survey of the experience of Islamic banking throughout the Muslim world in Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Sudan, iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Drawing comparisons between the countries in economic terms, it shows that the ...
Jewish Bankers and the Holy See (RLE: Banking & Finance): From the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Leon Poliakov
March 07, 2014
The Jewish community in Rome is the oldest in Europe, the only one to have existed continuously for over 2,000 years. This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov’s classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is at ...
Limitations on the Business of Banking (RLE Banking & Finance): An Analysis of Expanded Securities, Insurance and Real Estate Activities
1st Edition
By R Pace
March 07, 2014
This book is a study of how expanded bank powers could affect the banking industry in the US. Using contemporaneous measures, expanded data, a finer classification of industries, risk-reducing behavior, and the legal and regulatory environment this volume provides a more complete picture than ...
Money and Banking in the UK (RLE: Banking & Finance): A History
1st Edition
By Michael F. Collins
March 07, 2014
This book is concerned with developments in three main areas of monetary history: domestic commercial banking; monetary policy; and the UK’s international financial position. For ease of analysis the 160 years under study are arranged into three clear chronological divisons. Part 1 covers the years...
Montagu Norman (RLE Banking & Finance): A Study in Financial Statemanship
1st Edition
By Paul Einzig
March 07, 2014
This volume is not a biography of Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England from 1920-1944). Rather it provides a comprehensive and balanced picture of his policy and work, and in particular the role Montagu Norman played behind the scenes in political developments. The book takes as one of ...
Risk and Bank Expansion into Nonbanking Businesses (RLE: Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Eek-June Chung
March 07, 2014
This book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the universal BHCs. Part 2 reviews the contemporaneous...
Something in the City (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By John Benn
March 07, 2014
Prompted by the widespread curiosity aroused by the proceedings of the Parker Bank Rate Tribunal, the author has written a non-technical account of daily life in a City office and Boardroom. The author describes the ways in which money is put to work, and explains why the Sterling Area is so ...
The Banking Crisis (RLE Banking & Finance): The End of an Epoch
1st Edition
By Marcus Nadler, Jules Bogen
March 07, 2014
This volume presents a clear and concise explanation of why the American banking crisis of 1933 occurred. The bulk of the book analyses the actual events of the final major panic which was ushered in by the closing down of the banks in the State of Michigan on February 14, 1933. The following three...
The Early History of Banking in England (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Richard Richards
March 07, 2014
This is widely acknowledged as a scholarly and well-documented study of early banking in England. It bridges gaps in the early history of English banking and deals with the operations of the pre-Bank of England bankers, the evolution of English paper money and the remarkable transactions of the ...
The Gilt-Edged Market (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Jeremy Wormell
March 07, 2014
This book was written at a time when the market for government stocks in London, the gilt-edged market of the title, had undergone a period of rapid innovation in the forms of its instruments – index-linked stocks, variable rate stocks, and other new types – and of methods of issue. This had been ...
The Role of the European Investment Bank (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Sheila Lewenhak
March 07, 2014
This volume draws together diverse sources of information from the EIB’s own reports and bulletins, as well as reports of the Us Federal Reserve Board, the IMF and OECD, together with press and journal sources to examine the history, borrowing and lending operations from 1958-1980. It also ...