Macher, Flora (2018) The Austrian banking crisis of 1931: one bad apple spoils the whole bunch. Economic History working papers (274/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
The current literature is inconclusive on the relative importance of foreign and domestic factors in bringing about the Austrian financial crisis in 1931. This paper offers new data to bring further clarity to this issue and emphasises the importance of a domestic factor: universal banks’ exposure to industrial enterprises. Industrial enterprises were the universal banks’ main borrowers and creditors. During the 1920s they did not perform well, and made the universal banks insolvent. The Credit-Anstalt, which became an ‘acquirer of last resort’ for weak universal banks during the 1920s, may have avoided its own demise had it been spared of one bank’s, the Unionbank’s assets.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DB Austria H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| JEL classification: | N - Economic History > N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions > N24 - Europe: 1913- |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2018 12:39 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87151 |
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