A comparative examination of
financial institutions in the interwar period focusing on the UK, the US, Germany, France,
and Japan. In this latest addition to the prestigious Fuji Business History series, the
contributors to the volume analyse the ways in which different institutions coped with the
financial crises at this time, and how they competed with each other. They also ask how
this affected the financial climates of the countries in question. The discussion is
divided into three parts: commercial banking, universal banking, and insurance and
securities.
Readership: Business and economic historians interested in the history of international
banking and finance.
Table of Contents
Makoto Kasuya: Introduction
Part I: Commercial Banking
1 Youssef Cassis: European
Bankers in the Interwar Years
2 Michael Collins: British
Commercial Bank Support for the Business Sector and the Pressure for Change
3 Eugene White: The New Deal
and Commercial Banking Lending
4 Shinji Ogura: Mitsui
Bank's Lending Policy in Transition in the Interwar Years
Part II: Universal Banking
5 Eric Bussiere: The French
'Banques d'Affaires' in the Interwar Period
6 Harald Wixforth: The
German Banks and their Business Strategies inthe Weimar Republic: Preliminary results and
new findings
Part III: Insurance and
Securities
7 Mariko Tatsuki: How
Japanese Life Insurance Companies Coped with a Controlled Economy
8 Edwin Perkins: Growth
Stocks for Middle-Class Investors: Merrill Lynch & Co., 1914-41
9 Makoto Kasuya: Securities
Markets and a Securities Company in Interwar Japan: The case of Yamaichi
234 pages