Coping with Financial Crises Some Lessons from Economic History /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rockoff, Hugh (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Suto, Isao (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Financial crises.; Banks and banking.; Economic History.; Financial Crises.; Banking.

This edited volume is based on original essays first presented at the World Economic History Conference, Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015. It also includes three essays subsequently written especially for this volume. All of the essays focus on financial markets in the periods leading up to, during, and...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Reflections on the Evolution of Financial Crises: Theory, History and Empirics (Michael D. Bordo)
• 2 The international contagion of short-run interest rates during the Great Depression(Samuel Maveyraud and Antoine Parent)
• 3 Banking Crises and Lender of Last Resort in Theory and Practice in Swedish History, 1850 - 2010 (Anders Ögren)
• 4 It is Always the Shadow Banks: The Regulatory Status of the Banks that Failed and Ignited America's Greatest Financial Panics (Hugh Rockoff)
• 5 Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz on the Inherent Instability of Fractional Reserve Banking (Hugh Rockoff)
• 6 Financial Crises and the Central Bank: Lessons from Japan during the 1920s (Masato Shizume)
• 7 The Economic and Social Backgrounds of Top Executives of the Federal Reserve Before and After the Great Depression (Isao Suto).