Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the 20th century
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Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the 20th century
(Palgrave studies in the history of finance / series editors, Adrian R. Bell, D'Maris Coffman and Tony K. Moore)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Description and Table of Contents
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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 to behavioural 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.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1) Introduction
- Korinna Schoenharl.- Part 1: Recruitment of Personnel and Partners.- Chapter 2) The House of Morgan: Private family bank in transition
- Susie J Pak.- Chapter 3) Cooperative Governance in Banking: Consequences for decision-taking processes
- Friederike Sattler.- Chapter 4) Top Careers as a Means of Risk Management in Organisations
- Daniel Wylegala.- Part 2) Risk Management Techniques.- Chapter 5) Minimizing Risk: Financial intermediaries and bond issuing in London before the Great War
- Anders l Mikkelsen.- Chapter 6) Financial Centres as Fields: Reflections on habitus and risk in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.- Chapter 7) 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.- Chapter 8) Investigating Attitudes to risk in British Banking: A case study of Barclays' branch banking system, c. 1900-80
- Matthew Hollow.- Chapter 9) Between novelty and fashion - Risk management and the adoption of computers in retail banking
- Bernardo Batiz-Lazo.- Part 3: Methodological Tools for Historians: Network-Theory, Principal-Agent-Relationship, Behavioural Finance and Social Capital.- Chapter 10) Social capital versus commercial profits: The pressure of networks on decision making in early modern banks
- Nadia Matringe.- Chapter 11) Risk management, credit and the operation of merchants' networks in early modern banking
- Daniel Velinov.- Chapter 12) The role of group psychology in behavioural finance: A research starting point for banking, economic and financial historians
- Victor Ricciardi.- Chapter 13) Behavioural finance as a methodological approach for historians? A field report concerning the construction of the Canal of Corinth in nineteenth-century Greece
- Korinna Schoenharl.- Chapter 14) Considering social capital and the future research of banking history
- Morten Reitmayer.
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