Universität Wien

040112 SE Formation and developement of financial markets and institutions (in the transatlantic region) (BA) (2015S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Block:
Freitag, 24. April, 16.00 - 19.30 Uhr, Hörsaal 7, 1. Stock
Samstag, 25. April, 09.30 - 16.00 Uhr, Hörsaal 7, 1. Stock
Freitag, 19. Juni, 16.00 - 19.30 Uhr, Hörsaal 17, 2. Stock
Samstag, 20. Juni, 09.30 - 16.00 Uhr, Hörsaal 7, 1. Stock


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Aims, contents and method of the course

Key developements of (global) financial markets, monetary theory; tipical crisis phenomena.

Assessment and permitted materials

Term paper and presentation.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

General overview of the emergence and key developements on global financial markets and the political background.

Examination topics

Seminar-like lecture

Reading list

Atack, Jeremy, Larry Neal (ed.): The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions. From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2009.
Neal, Larry: The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1991
Baskin, J.B., P.J. Miranti, A History of Corporate Finance, Cambridge, 1999.
Chancellor, E.: Devil Take the Hindmost - A History of Financial Speculation, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999.
Institut für bankhistorische Forschung e.V. (Hg.): Derivate und Finanzstabilität: Erfahrungen aus vier Jahrhunderten, Bd. 48 (2013).
Kindleberger Charles P.: Manias, Panics, and Crashes - A History of Financial Crises. Wiley, 1996.
McKinnon, R.: The Order of Economic Liberalization: Financial Control in the Transition to a Market Economy. JHU Press, 1993.
Merki, Christoph Maria (Hg.): Europas Finanzzentren. Geschichte und Bedeutung im 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M.: Campus 2005.
Michie, Ranald C.: The Global Securities Market. A History. Oxford: Oxford UP 2006.
Mooij, Joke & Wim Boonstra: Raiffeisen’s Footprint. The Cooperative Way of Banking. Amsterdam: VU University Press 2012.
Pohl, Manfred & Sabine Freitag (Hg.): Handbook on the History of European Banks.Aldershot – Brookfield, Ve.: Edward Elgar 1994.
Scholtens, L.J.R.: Het geld en de stad. Over de ontwikkeling van internationale financiële centra. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press1993.
Shea, Gary S.: Sir George Caswall vs. the Duke of Portland: Financial contracts and litigation in the wake of the South Sea Bubble, in: Atack, Neal: Origins. S. 121-160.Sylla, Richard: Comparing the UK and US financial systems, 1790-1830, in: Atack & Neal: Origins. S. 209-240.
Smith, V.: The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative (1936), Liberty Fund, 1990.
Valério, Nuno (hg.): History of the Portuguese Banking System, 2vol. Lisbon: Banco de Portugal, n.d.
Velde, François R.: Was John Law‘s System a bubble? The Missisippi Bubble revisted, in: Atack, Neal: Origins. S. 99-120.
Buck, James E. (ed.): The New York Stock Exchange. The first 2000 Years. Essex, Co. 1992.
Kindleberger; Charles P.: The Formation of Financial Centers: A Study in Comparative Economic History. MIT Working Paper, Number 114. August 1973.
Hermans, Janneke & Onno De Witt: Bourses and brokers: stock exchanges as ICT junctions, in: History and Technology, 20/3: S.227-247.
Lipartito, Kenneth J.: The New York Cotton Exchange and the Development of the Cotton Futures Market, in: Business History Review, vol. LVII/ 1 (1983): S. 50-72.
Williams, Jeffrey C.: The Origin of Futures Markets, in: Agricultural History, 56/1 (1982): S. 306-316.
Bordo Michael D. & Christopher M. Meissner: Foreign capital, financial crises and incomes in the first era of globalization, in: European Review of Economic History, 15/1 (2011): S. 61 91.
Gelman, Sergey & Carsten Burhop: Taxation, regulation and the information efficiency of the Berlin stock exchange, 1892–1913, in: European Review of Economic History, 12/1 (2008): S. 39 66.

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