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This 1991 volume examines the financing of industry by banks and the banks' credit intermediation in industrial economies.
List of contents
Preface; 1. Introduction Harold James; 2. Political disputes about the role of banks Gerald D. Feldman; 3. Universal banking in interwar Central Europe Fritz Weber; 4. Comparing the interwar banking history of five small countries in north-west Europe Ulf Olsson; 5. American bankers and Britain's fall from gold Diane B. Kunz; 6. Banks and the problem of capital shortage in Germany, 1918-23 Gerald D. Feldman; 7. State, banks and industry in Sweden, with some reference to the Scandinavian countries Mats Larsson; 8. State, banks and industry in Belgium and The Netherlands, 1919-39 Guy Vanthemsche; 9. Investment behaviour of industrial joint-stock companies and industrial shareholding by the Österreichische Credit-Anstalt: inducement or obstacle to renewal and change in industry in interwar Austria Alois Mosser and Alice Teichova; 10. Financing of Hungarian industry by the Commercial Bank of Pest: a case study Elizabeth A. Boross; 11. The rise and fall of German-inspired mixed banking in Italy, 1894-1936 Douglas J. Forsyth; 12. Banking and economic development in interwar Greece Mark Mazower; 13. Why Canadian banks did not collapse in the 1930s Ian M. Drummond; 14. Japanese banks and national economic policy, 1920-36 W. Miles Fletcher III; Index.
Summary
This 1991 volume of essays interprets the economic effect of the financing of industry by banks and of the banks' credit intermediation in industrial economies. Particular attention is given to the interplay of economics and politics, to the connections between bankers and industrialists, and to the significance of interlocking directorships.
