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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Bank of England"”.
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Gladstone and the Bank of England: A Study in Mid-Victorian Finance, 1833-1866
The topic of this thesis is the confrontations between William Gladstone and the Bank of England. These confrontations have remained a mystery to authors who noted them, but have generally been ignored by others. This thesis demonstrates that Gladstone's measures taken against the Bank were …
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The development of the role of the Bank of England as a Lender of Last Resort, 1870-1914
This thesis studies the role of the Bank of England as a lender of last resort (LLR) in the 1870-1914 period. It also considers how the Bank reacted to the failure, or the possibility of failure, of financial institutions. This concern with crises arises out of fractional reserve banking: banks …
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The Long Road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966
This thesis investigates the emergence of a modern currency system in the Gold Coast and Ghana. It analyses financial events from 1825, the year when the ‘Trade Ounce’, a unit in commerce on the Guinea Coast during the Atlantic slave trade, ceased to be widely used in the Gold Coast and other parts …
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Speculative Economic Ideology and Dramatic Strategies in Susanna Centlivre's the Basset Table and the Busy Body
The importance of the trading classes and their philosophies in eighteenth-century literature grew as financial insitutions like the Bank of England and the National Debt were established; specifically, J.G.A. Pocock tells us, because of the audiences' and writers' "conscious recognition of change …
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Essays on the Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy
This study presents coverage of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in the UK. It shows that historically, monetary policy has evolved through several distinct phases and frameworks over the last quarter of a century. A "new consensus" has emerged as a key theoretical construct of this …
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
… (2007), this thesis seeks to recast the question of Victorian ‘secularization’ – a notion largely abandoned by historians. It does so by analysing the temporal dimension of three Victorian social imaginaries and their technological performance: railways and the establishment of a uniform national …
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Gender, crime and discretion in the English criminal justice system, 1780s to 1830s
Historians of English crime and criminal justice agree that females are more leniently treated by the criminal justice system. Fewer females are prosecuted for unlawful activities, and, when they are, they are more readily acquitted, or receive lighter sentences than males. However, reasons for …
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The grammar of money : an analytical account of money as a discursive institution in light of the practice of complementary currencies
… local initiatives like the Brixton Pound to timebanks, business-to-business currencies and, of course, Bitcoin - have received unprecedented attention by academics, policy makers, the media and the general public. However, at close theoretic inspection money itself remains as elusive a phenomenon …
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The Royal Mint Refinery, a Business Adapting to Change, 1919-1968
The thesis charts the business history of the Royal Mint Refinery (RMR), a bullion<br/>refinery operated by the London merchant bank, N M Rothschild & Sons, between<br/>1852 and 1968. Through analysis of business records key events that changed the trading direction of the operation are identified: …
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Institutional Frictions & Policy Constraints in Macroeconomic Transmission: Essays in Macroeconomics, Monetary & Fiscal Policy, and DSGE Business Cycle Modelling
This thesis consists of five self-contained essays in macroeconomics, DSGE modelling, and applications to the analysis of macroeconomic stabilisation, particularly through monetary and fiscal policy. Beyond the methodological framework, the unifying thread is modelling and assessing the role in the …
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Ludwig Zinzendorf's political economy in the Habsburg monarchy, 1750-1774
… economy and the intellectual inspiration of his thinking. Zinzendorf, a protégé of Kaunitz, was a sophisticated economic thinker in the mid eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy who was part of the wider intellectual movement in Europe dedicated to understanding political economy and …
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Three essays in semi-parametric modelling of time-varying distribution
… century we have been frustrated by the number of economic crises which trigger extreme uncertainty in the global economic system. Economic agents are sensitive to the uncertainty of inflations, as well as to asset values, for survival in such circumstances. Hence, modern finance and monetary …
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'Real Liberals' and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-1886
… that examines the political and cultural life of the City of London between 1848 and 1886 alongside its financial and commercial institutions. In attempting this task it has not been assumed that the City's signifying character was necessarily to be found in the financial and commercial …
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Reconsidering the role of nominal monetary policy variables: evidence from four major economies
… empirical evidence on the effectiveness of monetary policy in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan. The financial crisis in 2007/08 highlighted the weakness of using nominal interest rates as the main monetary policy instrument. Before the financial crisis in 2007/08, the new monetary …
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For the want of ‘scots projects’: Scottish Financial Innovation and the nature of the Financial Revolution, 1688-1727
Taking root in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, the Financial Revolution extended into the middle of the next century, shadowed in Britain by union, rebellion, and dynastic change. The classic literature on the Financial Revolution is plentiful but has paid little attention to …
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Testing for bubbles in time series data using long historical series
The concept of asset price bubble has drawn a large amount of academic attention. A bubble is commonly defined as where the asset price is not justified by expectations of the fundamentals. The empirical characteristics of a bubble are widely regarded as a dramatic rise in asset prices in the early …
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An Empirical Analysis of The Effect of the Corporate Governance Framework on UK Banks' Performance: 2007-2021
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/2008, UK taxpayers bailed out banks using billions of pounds. Subsequently, the government-commissioned Walker Report’s (2009) recommendations were subsequently subsumed into the UK Corporate Governance Code (2018). We collectively refer to …
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… dissertation is on the historical development of a co-constitutive relationship between money as the form of appearance of value and race as the form of appearance of human difference. It demonstrates this relationship through a study of experiments with monetary value in eighteenth-century …
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Theoretical and empirical analysis of a macroeconomic model with financial and housing sectors in emerging market economies
… theoretical framework, has become the workhorse of macroeconomic analysis in academia, research institutes and monetary authorities since the 1980s. The dominating popularity of the DSGE type of models can be witnessed by their extensive use by central banks, such as the Bank of England (BoE), …
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A critical evaluation of Business Continuity Management (BCM) in UK financial organisations
… years have provided evidence that the world of business is rife with risks anduncertainties. The vivid events of 9/11 (11 th September 2001) in New York, U.S. and other majorincidents, have forever changed the global perspective of managing threats to business operations.The U.K. financial …
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