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Money, Banking and Financial Sophistication

In: The Integration of the European Economy, 1850–1913

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  • Lee A. Craig

    (North Carolina State University
    National Bureau of Economic Research)

  • Douglas Fisher

    (North Carolina State University)

Abstract

During the period 1850–1913, the banking systems of Europe grew very rapidly by historical standards. The typical pattern was for the money stock to grow considerably faster than nominal gross national (or domestic) output, as we illustrate below, and as we noted in Chapter 3, real gross output also grew rapidly by historical comparison throughout much of Europe during this period. Indeed, the money supply grew more rapidly than nominal output in every country for which we have the appropriate data, except the United Kingdom. This finding implies that velocity — that is, the average number of times a unit of domestic currency changes hands — fell during the period 1850–1913.1 The period also features price levels that fell about as often as they rose, so that growth rates of money were also generally much in excess of rates of inflation. It follows that the rapidly expanding banking systems on the Continent were filling a need, at the same time many of the economies were industrializing at unprecedented rates, by providing new financial services at an equally unprecedented rate.

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  • Lee A. Craig & Douglas Fisher, 1997. "Money, Banking and Financial Sophistication," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Integration of the European Economy, 1850–1913, chapter 4, pages 65-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25165-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25165-0_4
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