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Finance, intermediaries, and economic development /

This volume contains papers first presented at a conference, "In Data Veritas: Institutions and Growth in Economic History," held in honor of Lance Davis at the California Institute of Technology, November 6-8, 1998. There are ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Lance E. (Lance Edwin) (honouree.), Engerman, Stanley L. (Editor ), Hoffman, Philip T., 1947- (Editor ), Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (Editor ), Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambrige, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE
  • Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century / Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn
  • Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure / Eugene N. White
  • No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
  • II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS
  • Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy / Angela Redish
  • Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 / John B. Legler, Richard Sylla
  • Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 / Kenneth A. Snowden
  • III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION
  • Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
  • Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital / Dianne Newell
  • Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 / Robert C. Allen
  • Was adherence to the gold standard a "good housekeeping seal of approval" during the interwar period? / Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff.