Decision Taking Confidence And Risk Management In Banks From Early Modernity To The 20th Century

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 to behavioural 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.

Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms.

About the editors -- About the contributors -- Abbreviations -- Financial behavior and psychology -- Financial behavior : an overview / H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Victor Ricciardi -- The financial psychology of players, services, and products / Victor Ricciardi -- The financial behavior of major players -- Individual investors / Henrik Cronqvist and Danling Jiang -- Institutional investors / Alexandre Skiba and Hilla Skiba -- Corporate executives, directors, and boards / John R. Nofsinger and Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard -- Financial planners and advisors / Benjamin F. Cummings -- Financial analysts / Susan M. Young -- Portfolio managers / Erik Devos, Andrew C. Spieler, and Joseph M. Tenaglia -- Financial psychopaths / Deborah W. Gregory -- Financial and investor psychology of specific players -- The psychology of high net worth individuals / Rebecca Li-Huang -- The psychology of traders / Duccio Martelli -- A closer look at frequent trader / Michal Strahivevitz -- The psychology of women investors / Marguerita M. Cheng, and Sameer S. Somal -- The financial psychology of millennials / April Rudin and Catherine McBreen -- The psychology of financial services -- Psychological aspect of financial planning / Dave Yeske and Elissa Buie -- Financial advisory services / Jeroen Nieboer, Paul Dolan, and Ivo Vlaev -- Insurance and risk management / James M. Moten Jr. and C.W. Copeland -- Psychological factors in estate planning / John Guerin and L. Paul Hood -- Individual biases in retirement planning and wealth management / James E. Brewer Jr., and Charles Self -- The behavioral aspects of investmnet products and markets -- Traditional asset allocation securities: stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash / Christopher Milliken, Ehsan Nikbakht, and Andrew Spieler -- Behavioral aspects of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and pension funds / Nathan Mauck -- Current trends in successful international mergers and acquisitions / Nancy Hubbard -- Art and collectibles management / Peter J. May -- Market efficiency issues -- Behavioral finance market hypothesis / Alex Plastun -- Stock market anomalies / Steve Fan and Linda Yu -- The psychology of speculation in financial markets / Victor Ricciardi -- Can humans dance with machines? : institutional investors, high frequency trading, and modern markets dynamics / Irene Aldridge -- The application and future of behavioral finance -- Applications of client behavior : a practitioner's perspective / Harold Evensky -- Practical challenges of implementing behavioral finance : reflections from the field / Greg B. Davies and Peter Brooks -- The future of behavioral finance / Michael Dowling and Brian Lucey -- Discussion questions and answers -- Index

In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China's financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history.

Risks and uncertainties?market, financial, operational, social, humanitarian, environmental, and institutional?are the inherent realities of the modern world. Stock market crashes, demonetization of currency, and climate change constitute just a few examples that can adversely impact financial institutions across the globe. To mitigate these risks and avoid a financial crisis, a better understanding of how the economy responds to uncertainties is needed. Maintaining Financial Stability in Times of Risk and Uncertainty is an essential reference source that discusses how risks and uncertainties affect the financial stability and security of individuals and institutions, as well as probable solutions to mitigate risk and achieve financial resilience under uncertainty. Featuring research on topics such as financial fraud, insurance ombudsman, and Knightian uncertainty, this book is developed for researchers, academicians, policymakers, students, and scholars.

Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking uses the invention and development of the automated teller machine (ATM) to explain the birth and evolution of digital banking, from the 1960s to present day. It tackles head on the drivers of long-term innovation in retail banking with emphasis on the payment system. Using a novel approach to better understanding the industrial organization of financial markets, Cash and Dash contributes to a broader discussion around innovation and labour-saving devices. It explores attitudes to the patent system, formation of standards, organizational politics, the interaction between regulation and strategy, trust and domestication, maintenance versus disruption, and the huge undertakings needed to develop online real-time banking to customers.

The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan grew up in Toronto and then forward to his post-prison life following his deportation to Canada. It is the chronicle of Lonergan in denial as a bisexual or gay man living in an intolerant and morally superior heterosexual world; and of Patricia, rich and entitled, a seeker of attention, who loved a night out on the town—all set against the fast pace of New York’s ostentatious café society. Part True Crime and part a social history of New York City in the 1940s, this book transports readers to the New York World’s Fair of 1939 when Patricia’s father William Burton first encountered Lonergan; the Stork Club, 21 Club, and El Morocco to experience with Patricia a night of drinking champagne cocktails and dancing; and the muggy New York courtroom where Lonergan’s fate was decided. What truly happened on that tragic night in October 24, 1943? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession at face value as the jury did? Or was he indeed a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life? This book considers these, and other, key questions.

This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.