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

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Editors:
  1. Korinna Schönhärl

    1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

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  • Presents new methodological approaches in practical historical research
  • Combines theory with empirical evidence
  • Leverages concepts from behavioural finance

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Korinna Schönhärl
    Pages 1-12

  3. First Part: Recruitment of Personnel and Partners

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The House of Morgan: Private Family Bank in Transition

      • Susie J. Pak
      Pages 15-55

    3. Top Careers as a Means of Risk Management in Organisations

      • Daniel Wylegala
      Pages 57-79

    4. Cooperative Governance in Banking: Consequences for Decision-Making Processes

      • Friederike Sattler
      Pages 81-102

  4. Second Part: Risk Management Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Minimising Risk: Financial Intermediaries and Bond Issuing in London before the Great War

      • Anders L. Mikkelsen
      Pages 105-124

    3. Financial Centres as Fields: Reflections on Habitus and Risk in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

      • Andrew Dilley
      Pages 125-145

    4. The “Reputation Approach” and the Justificatory Function of Economic Calculation. Some Critical Reflections on Monika Pohle Fraser’s Analysis of Risk Management Techniques in the Nineteenth Century

      • Sebastian Knake
      Pages 147-171

    5. Investigating Attitudes to Risk in British Banking: A Case Study of Barclays’ Branch Banking System, c. 1900–80

      • Matthew Hollow
      Pages 173-188

    6. Between Novelty and Fashion: Risk Management and the Adoption of Computers in Retail Banking

      • Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
      Pages 189-207

  5. Third Part: Methodological Tools for Historians: Network-Theory, Principal-Agent-Relationship, Behavioural Finance and Social Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Social Capital Versus Commercial Profits: The Impact of Networks on Decision-Making in Early Modern Banks

      • Nadia Matringe
      Pages 211-234

    3. Risk Management, Credit and the Working of Merchants’ Networks in Early Modern Banking

      • Daniel Velinov
      Pages 235-267

    4. The Role of Group Psychology in Behavioural Finance: A Research Starting Point for Banking, Economic, and Financial Historians

      • Victor Ricciardi
      Pages 269-292

    5. Behavioural Finance as a Methodological Approach for Historians? A Field Report Concerning the Construction of the Canal of Corinth in Nineteenth-Century Greece

      • Korinna Schönhärl
      Pages 293-313

    6. Considerations of Social Capital and Future Research in Banking History

      • Morten Reitmayer
      Pages 315-332

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 333-342
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About this book

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 analyse the types of risk management techniques used, the contributory factors to the constitution of confidence and the methods that banking historians can use to analyse and describe bankers´ risk management and decision taking - from system theory tobehavioural finance, new institutional economics to praxeology and convention theory to network analysis. The different methodological approaches are put to the test in case studies based on archive material from four hundred years of banking in order to connect banking history more closely to political and cultural history.




Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Korinna Schönhärl

About the editor

Korinna Schönhärl is Assistant Professor for Social and Economic History at Essen University, Germany. Her current research centres on the investment of European banks in Greece in the19th century. Additional research foci are historical methodology, the history of economic thought, the history of migration and the history of tax morale.

Bibliographic Information

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

  • Editors: Korinna Schönhärl

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42076-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42075-2Published: 06 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82494-9Published: 15 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42076-9Published: 26 January 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5164

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Financial History, Banking, Risk Management, Investment Appraisal, Capital Markets

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