Handbook of key global financial markets, institutions and infrastructure
Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globaliz...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2013
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- A Worldwide Tale of Two Banking Eras: 1875-1913 and 1978-2009Glossary; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Bretton Woods and Monetary Regimes; Introduction; Types and Examples of Monetary Regimes; The Classical Gold Standard; The Interwar Years, the Gold-Exchange Standard, and the Great Depression; Bretton Woods and the Anglo-American Compromise; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 4: British Corporate Finance, 1500-1860; World in 1500; Impact of the Voyages of Discovery; Emergence of the Joint-Stock Company; Rise of the Secondary Market in Shares
- Front cover; Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions and Infrastructure; Copyright; Editor-in-Chief; Section Editors for this volume; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Section I: Globalization of Finance: An Historical View; Chapter 1: History of Financial Globalization, Overview; References; Chapter 2: Banking Fragility, United States, 1790-2009; Introduction; Banking Fragility in Theory and in Historical Reality; US Banking Crises: 1790-1933; Central Banking and Bank Instability in US History; Summary of US Historical Experience
- War Financing
- State and Capital MarketsInto the Nineteenth Century; References; Chapter 5: Chinese Finance, 1348-1700; Public and Private Finance in China, 1000-1700; The Monetary System; Public Finance; Credit and Private Finance; Summary; Glossary; Further Readings; Chapter 6: Chinese Money and Monetary System, 1800-2000, Overview; A Conceptual Framework; 1800-50; 1850-1911; 1911-30; 1930-49; Acknowledgments; Glossary; References; Chapter 7: Dutch Bank Finance, 1600-1800; An Exchange Bank; The First Five Decades; Fiat Money; Monetary Policy; Eighteenth Century; Conclusion; Further Reading
- Chapter 8: Dutch Corporate Finance, 1602-1850Introduction; From Partnerships to Chartered Public Companies, 1602-1680; Branching Out, 1680-1795; New Challenges, 1795-1850; Conclusion; Further Reading; Relevant Websites; Chapter 9: The Financial Revolution in England; Introduction; The Origins of the Financial Revolution in England; The Development of the Instruments of State Debt; Controlling the Costs of Debt; The Question of Credibility; The Consequences of England's Financial Revolution; Glossary; Further Reading; Chapter 10: Commercial Finance in Europe, 1700-1815; Introduction
- The Instrument: Bills of ExchangeWhat Is a Bill of Exchange?; Usury Regulation and `True ́ Interest Rates; Bullion Versus Bills; City-Currencies; Sources; Mapping Commercial Finance; Quotes as Evidence for Liquidity in the Underlying Market; Determinants of Liquidity; Networks of Financial Financing; The Geographical Reach of European Finance; Hierarchies, Distance, and Groups; Some Tentative Hypotheses; The Cost of Commercial Finance: Searching for Interest Rate; The Absence of Direct Evidence on Interest Rates; Shadow Interest Rates Based on Bills with Different Maturities