The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History
Edited by Youssef Cassis, Richard S. Grossman, and Catherine R. Schenk
Author Information
Edited by Youssef Cassis, Professor of Economic History, European University Institute, Richard S. Grossman, Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University, and Catherine R. Schenk, Professor of International Economic History, University of Glasgow
Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His most recent publications include Capitals of Capital. A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005, (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2nd revised edition, 2010), Crises and Opportunities. The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011); and, with Philip L. Cottrell, Private Banking in Europe. Rise, Retreat and Resurgence (Oxford University Press, 2015). He was the cofounder, in 1994, of Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press). He was also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and past President (2005-2007) of the European Business History Association.
Richard S. Grossman is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author of Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 (Princeton, 2010) and WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them (Oxford, 2013). He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a research network fellow of CESifo in Munich, and an associate editor for socioeconomics, health policy, and law at the journal Neurosurgery. He has held visiting positions at the US Department of State, Yale University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Catherine Schenk FRHS is Professor of International Economic History at the University of Glasgow. She gained her PhD at the London School of Economics and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, Victoria University of Wellington and visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as the University of Hong Kong. She is Associate Fellow in the international economics department at Chatham House in London. Her research focuses on international monetary and financial relations after 1945 with a particular emphasis on East Asia and the United Kingdom. She is the author of several books including International Economic Relations since 1945 (2011) and The Decline of Sterling: managing the retreat of an international currency (2010).
Contributors:
Stefano Battilossi, University Carlos III
Forrest Capie, Cass Business School City University, London
Gerard Caprio, Milken Institute's Center for Financial Markets
Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
Caroline Fohlin, Johns Hopkins University and Emory University
Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University and Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University
Harold James, Princeton University
Chris Kobrak, ESCP Europe
Ranald Michie, Durham University
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, CNRS Paris
Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
Catherine Schenk, University of Glasgow
Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn and CESifo Research Network
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Turner, Queen's University Belfast
Dan Wadhwani, University of the Pacific
Gerarda Westerhuis, Utrecht University
Juan Flores Zendejas, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History
