2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
An Analysis of the 'flow-of-funds' within the Yokohama Specie Bank, 1910-1940
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19K01773
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
Schiltz Michael 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 准教授 (50624582)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | financial history / banking history |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the wider context of world financial history, this project contributes to the burgeoning literature documenting the multiplicity of gold standard management. Originally coined by Keynes (1913), the center-periphery dimension of the gold standard has only recently started to be explored in country-studies
The project's development has been very successful. In December 2020, Oxford University Press published a monograph directly related to the research project. Full reference: Schiltz, Michael. 2020. Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913. New York: Oxford University Press.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
COVID-19 has made it difficult to continue archival research as planned. Nevertheless, I hope to make good on this in the coming years.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Building on the obtained research results, the project's PI is currently preparing a special issue of the journal Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press). The special issue seeks to elucidate the peculiar nature of Asian finance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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