Overview
- Presents new methodological approaches in practical historical research
- Combines theory with empirical evidence
- Leverages concepts from behavioural finance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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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 tobehavioural 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.
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 tobehavioural 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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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First Part: Recruitment of Personnel and Partners
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Second Part: Risk Management Techniques
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Third Part: Methodological Tools for Historians: Network-Theory, Principal-Agent-Relationship, Behavioural Finance and Social Capital
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Korinna Schönhärl is Assistant Professor for Social and Economic History at Essen University, Germany. Her current research centres on the investment of European banks in Greece in the19th century. Additional research foci are historical methodology, the history of economic thought, the history of migration and the history of tax morale.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century
Editors: Korinna Schönhärl
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42076-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42075-2Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82494-9Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42076-9Published: 26 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 342
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial History, Banking, Risk Management, Investment Appraisal, Capital Markets