Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schönhärl, Korinna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Subjects: Finance.; Banks and banking.; Risk management.; Capital market.; Finance > History.; Capital investments.; Financial History.; Banking.; Risk Management.; Investment Appraisal.; Capital Markets.

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking, constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of bank decision taking changed over time. Chapters also analy...