2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research 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 / hedging / Japanese history / Asian history |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The reception of the project's results has been more forthcoming than expected. Oxford University press decided to publish my book in its economic history series (published in December 2020). Within Japan, I have profited from extensive contacts with several researchers. Kobayashi Atsushi (Kyoto University), in particular, plans to build on my research findings to develop a larger research project studying all 'exchange banks' in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As a preliminary step towards such project, we acquired the full collection of balance sheets of the Chartered Mercantile Bank and the Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China. These amount to several thousand pages of primary data, most of which have not been used before). We are currently in the phase of understanding the information/data contained in the ledgers. Publication of 1 or 2 journal articles in international journals for Economic History (the Economic History Review) are being planned for publication; however, the construction of a complete dataset will probably fall outside the scope of this project. Internationally, the Financial History Review agreed to the publication of a special issue on Asian banking history, edited by prof. Okazaki Tetsuji (University of Tokyo), Ghassan Moazzin (Hong Kong University), and myself. Several papers have been gathered and will be submitted within this fiscal year (2024-2025).
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| Remarks |
This repository has been used to document the database specific aspects of the book "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913".
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