@Book{086720767, editor="Engerman, Stanley L. and Davis, Lance Edwin", title="Finance, intermediaries, and economic development", series="EBSCOhost eBook Collection", year="2003", publisher="Cambridge University Press", address="Cambridge, UK", keywords="Financial institutions; Economic development; Congresses; Conference papers and proceedings; BUSINESS {\&} ECONOMICS ; Banks {\&} Banking", contents="I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE --Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century /Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn --Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure /Eugene N. White --No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris /Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal --II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS --Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy /Angela Redish --Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 /John B. Legler, Richard Sylla --Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 /Kenneth A. Snowden --III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION --Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 /Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff --Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital /Dianne Newell --Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 /Robert C. Allen --Was adherence to the gold standard a ``good housekeeping seal of approval'' during the interwar period? /Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff.", abstract="I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE -- Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn -- Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene N. White -- No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS -- Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy Angela Redish -- Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 John B. Legler, Richard Sylla -- Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 Kenneth A. Snowden -- III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION -- Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital Dianne Newell -- Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 Robert C. Allen -- Was adherence to the gold standard a ``good housekeeping seal of approval'' during the interwar period? Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff", note="edited by Stanley L. Engerman ... [et al.]", note="``Papers first presented at a conference 'In data veritas: institutions and growth in economic history.' held in honor of Lance Davis at the California Institute of Technology, November 6-8, 1998''--Pref", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", note="Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004", note="Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary |2004||||||||||", isbn="0511061722", url="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=120481", url="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=120481", language="English" }