Sökning: "local banking system"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden local banking system.
1. Framväxten av ett lokalt banksystem : Oppunda sparbank, Södermanlands enskilda bank och stationssamhället Katrineholm 1850-1916
Sammanfattning : The principal purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyze the emergence and development of the local banking system in the railway junction community of Katrineholm during the period 1850-1916. The actors (i.e. LÄS MER
2. An Economic Backbone of Development : Essays in Financial and Political Economy
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Local Banking and Historical Innovation: the Effect of Swedish Savings BanksHow does access to credit affect innovation at the early stages of development? This essay uses digitized records from the Swedish savings banks movement, in combination with novel data on the universe of historical patenting, to study how savings banks affected innovation in Sweden between 1900 and 1949, a period when the country was still a developing economy. LÄS MER
3. Den naturliga ordningen : Makt och intressen i de svenska sparbankerna 1882-1968
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis has been to analyse how savings banks were integrated into the Swedish financial system from the end of the 19 th century until 1968. The study has focused on two questions. LÄS MER
4. A Swedish dilemma : Aging during the search for a national insurance, 1884-1913
Sammanfattning : Non-wage holders made up a significant portion of Sweden’s population in 1900. Yet, there are surprisingly few studies covering their formative role in the universal coverage of Sweden’s Pension Act of 1913. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Saving, Borrowing and Intangible Capital
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Can an increasing importance of intangible capital in the economy explain increases in markups and profits? I use a heterogeneous firm model to show how intangible capital is related to markups and profits at the industry level. The uncertainty and scalability properties of intangible capital imply that firms that succeed in their intangible capital investment can charge high markups relative to other firms, whereas firms that fail will exit. LÄS MER