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The Evolutionary Chain of International Financial Centers

In: The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance

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  • Michele Fratianni

    (Università Politecnica delle Marche
    Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

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Financial products are unstandardized and subject to a great deal of uncertainty. They tend to concentrate geographically because of the reduction in information costs resulting from close contacts. Concentration leads to economies of scale and encourages external economies. Great financial centers enjoy a high degree of persistence but are not immune from decline and eventual demise. Yet, their achievements are passed along in an evolutionary manner. In revisiting the historical record of seven international financial centers—Florence, Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, Amsterdam, London and New York—the paper finds evidence of a long evolutionary chain of banking and finance. As to the present and the future, the forces of integration are likely to give an additional boost to the persistence of international financial centers.

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  • Michele Fratianni, 2009. "The Evolutionary Chain of International Financial Centers," Springer Books, in: Alberto Zazzaro & Michele Fratianni & Pietro Alessandrini (ed.), The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance, edition 1, chapter 12, pages 251-276, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-98078-2_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-98078-2_12
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    Keywords

    Interest Rate; Credit Risk; Secondary Market; Government Debt; Financial Center;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative

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