The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy.

Abstract

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 Osterreichische 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.