Financial History Review, Volume 17, Issue 01, April 2010

Published in April, the first part of Volume 17 of the Financial History Review contains a fascinating and informative collection of articles and reviews.

The past mirror:notes, survey, debates

Charles W. Calomiris
Banking crises yesterday and today

Articles

André C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
Endowments, fiscal federalism and the cost of capital for states: evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

David Chambers
Going public in interwar Britain

Lyndon Moore
Financial market liquidity, returns, and market growth: evidence from Bolsa and Börse, 1902-1925

Magnus Lindmark and Lars Fredrik Andersson
All fired up: the growth of fire insurance in Sweden, 18-1950


Book Reviews

John H. Wood, A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (reviewer: Piet Clement)

Gerald D. Feldman and Peter Hertner, Finance and Modernization: A Transnational and Transcontinental Perspective of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (reviewer: Juan Flores)

Catherine Schenk, Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenge: Historical Perspectives (reviewer: Atish R. Ghosh)

Ranald C. Michie, Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914 (reviewer: Michel Lutfalla)

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