| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 611 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability. It then describes the architecture itself by analyzing its parts, such as markets, institutions, and infrastructure. The. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Finance.
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Financial institutions.
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Finances. |
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Institutions financières. |
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finance. |
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financial institutions (institutions) |
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Finance |
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Financial institutions |
| Added Author |
Arner, Douglas W.
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Caprio, Gerard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780123978738 |
| ISBN |
9780124058989 (electronic bk.) |
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0124058981 (electronic bk.) |
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0123978734 |
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9780123978738 |
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