The Origins of Modern Banking in Spain

The Role of Monetary Plurality
Herausgeber: Sudrià, Carles; Blasco-Martel, Yolanda

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the formation of the Spanish banking system. It provides a general overview of European financial systems in operation during the mid-nineteenth century, followed by a detailed analysis of the economic and institutional changes that gave rise to a new form of banking in Spain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138316553
• ISBN-10: 1138316555
• Artikelnr.: 56550595

Autorenporträt

Carles Sudrià is Professor of Economic History at the Universitat de Barcelona. He has published widely on financial history and the history of energy in Spain, and contributed to journals such as Business History, Financial History Review, European Review of Economic History and Revista de Historia Económica. Yolanda Blasco-Martel is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has published on financial history, social history and business networks in Spain, and contributed to journals such as Business History, Atlantic Studies, Investigaciones de Historia Económica and Revista de Historia Industrial.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Money and banking in Europe, 1700-1890: the formation of
new financial systems. 2. Banking regulation and the emergence of
provincial banks in Spain. 3. Bourgeoisie and provincial banks: social
origins of the new banking elite. 4. A profitability approach to Spanish
banks' performance: earnings and assets. 5. Provincial banks of issue and
the Spanish economy: money and credit. 6. The unexpected end of monetary
plurality: a premature demise? 7. A final assessment: Spanish banking
development in nineteenth-century Europe.