1st Edition
Bank-Industry versus Stock Market-Industry Relationships
Introduction— Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets
José L. García-Ruiz and Michelangelo Vasta
1. The coevolution of banks and corporate securities markets: The financing of Belgium’s industrial take-off in the 1830s
Stefano Ugolini
2. Did French stock markets support firms of the Second Industrial Revolution?
Emilie Bonhoure and David Le Bris
3. Debating banking in Britain: The Colwyn committee, 1918
Mark Billings, Simon Mollan and Philip Garnett
4. Corporate networks in post-war Britain: Do finance– industry relationships matter for corporate borrowing?
Philipp Kern and Gerhard Schnyder
5. The banking-industry relationship in Italy: Large national banks and small local banks compared (1913– 1936)
Alberto Rinaldi and Anna Spadavecchia
Biography
José L. García-Ruiz is Professor of Economic History at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). His lines of research are business history, financial history and industrial history. Between 2015 and 2019 he was Editor-in-chief of Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research (IHE-HER), the academic journal of the Spanish Economic History Association.
Michelangelo Vasta is Professor of Economic History at the University of Siena (Italy). He received his D.Phil at University of Oxford. His main fields of interest are economics of innovation in the long run perspective, institutions and economic performance, the economic history of living standard, entrepreneurship and trade. He pays particular attention to historical dataset and quantitative methods. He has published extensively in the major economic history and business history journals.
