Universal Banking in the Twentieth Century: Finance, Industry and the State in North and Central Europe.

Abstract

Part 1 Continuity and discontinuity in historical perspective: continuity and change in Swedish banking, Ragnhild Lundstrom the Norwegian banking system before and after the interwar crises, Even Lange origins of the banking system in interwar Czechoslovakia, Jan Hajek banking and nationality in Hungary, 1867-1914, Zoltan Szasz universal banking in the Slovene region, 1900-1945, Franjo Stiblar. Part 2 Central banks, the state and universal banks: production versus currency - the Danish Central Bank in the 1920s, Per H. Hansen Norwegian banks and the legacy of the interwar years, Sverre Knutsen the establishment of the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank - conflicting interests, Charlotte Natmessnig the failure of crisis management - banking laws in interwar Austria, Gertrude Enderle-Burcel. Part 3 Universal banks and industry: banking system changes in the new Independent Czechoslovak Republic, Vlastislav Lacina bank-industry relations in interwar Slovakia, Jozef Faltus mushrooms and dinosaurs - Sieghart and the Boden-Credit-Anstalt in the 1920s, P.L. Cottrell better, for worse ... - the Credit-Anstalt and its customers in 1931, Dieter Stiefel the Wiener Bank-Verein and its customers in the 1920s and 1930s, Desiree D. Verdonk financing industrial companies in interwar Austria - working capital and liquidity, Alois Mosser the industrial clientele of the Hungarian General Credit Bank, 1920-26, Agnes Pogany. Part 4 Bankers and bank-industry networks: networks of bankers and industrialists in interwar Greece, Margarita Dritsas interlocking dictatorships between banks and industry in interwar Sweden, Jan Ottosson interlocking directorships between commercial banks and industry in interwar Vienna, Peter Eigner.