Readings for October 13, Nineteenth Century
Capital Markets
Economics 210a, Fall 1999
Lance Davis (1965), "The
Investment Market, 1870-1914: The Evolution of a National Market,"
Journal of Economic History 25, pp.355-393.
Howard Bodenhorn (1995), "The More Perfect Union: Regional
Interest Rates in the United States, 1880-1960," in Michael
D. Bordo and Richard Sylla (eds), Anglo-American Financial
Systems: Institutions and Markets in the 20th Century, New
York: Irwin Professional Publishing, pp.415-454.
Kenneth A. Snowden (1995), "The Evolution of Interregional
Mortgage Lending Channels, 1870-1914: The Life Insurance-Mortgage
Company Connection," in Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G.
Raff (eds), Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives
on the Organization of Enterprise, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, pp.209-256.
Marco da Rin (1996), "Understanding the Development of
the German Kreditbanken, 1850-1914," Financial History
Review, pp.29-47.
Charles Calomiris (1995), "The Costs of Rejecting Universal
Banking: American Finance in the German Mirror, 1870-1914,"
in Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G. Raff (eds), Coordination
and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization
of Enterprise, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.257-322.
J. Bradford DeLong (1991), "Did
J. P. Morgan's Men Add Value? An Economist's Perspective on Financial
Capitalism," in Peter Temin, ed., Inside the Business
Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for NBER), pp. 205-36.
Extra Readings:
Howard Bodenhorn and Hugh Rockoff (1992), "Regional Interest
Rates in Antebellum America," in Claudia Goldin and Hugh
Rockoff (eds), Strategic Factors in 19th Century American
Economic History (University of Chicago Press).
J. Bradford DeLong (1991), "Did J.P. Morgan's Men Add
Value?" in Peter Temin (ed.), Inside the Business Enterprise
(University of Chicago Press).
Barry Eichengreen (1984), "Mortgage Interest Rates in
the Populist Era," American Economic Review 74.
John James (1995), "The Rise and Fall of the Commercial
Paper Market," in Michael D. Bordo and Richard Sylla (eds.),
Anglo American Financial Systems (Irwin).
Naomi Lamoreaux (1986), "Banks, Kinship, and Economic
Development: The New England Case," Journal of Economic
History XLVI.
William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan "Financial and Industrial
Development: The United States and the United Kingdom,"
Financial History Review 4.
Kenneth Ng (1988), "Free Banking Laws and Barriers to
Entry in Banking 1838-1960," Journal of Economic History
XLVIII.
Hugh Rockoff (1974), "The Free Banking Era: A Reexamination,"
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Halsey Rogers (1994), "Man to Loan $1500 and Serve as
Clerk: Trading Jobs for Loans in Mid-Nineteenth-Century San Francisco,"
Journal of Economic History 54.
Arthur Rolnick and Warren Weber (1983), "New Evidence
on the Free Banking Era," American Economic Review
73.
Richard Sylla (1969), "Federal Policy, Banking Market
Structure and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863-1913,"
Journal of Economic History 29.
Richard Sylla and George David Smith (1994), "Information
and Capital market Regulation in Anglo-American Finance,"
in Michael D. Bordo and Richard Sylla (eds.), Anglo American
Financial Systems (Irwin).
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