This essay discusses trends in new banking history scholarship. It does so by conducting bibliometric content analysis of the entire literature involving the history of banks, bankers and banking published in all major academic journals since the year 2000. It places this recent scholarship in...

This study explores how market power and financial flexibility shape corporate investment policies among U.S. large and mature corporations, by estimating firm-specific, time-varying investment-to-added-value sensitivities. We find that firms with market power exhibit lower investment...

The newly established South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was tasked to protect the currency by navigating the interwar gold standard, and, from March 1933, maintaining parity with the Pound Sterling. We find that South Africa's exit from gold secured an unparalleled and rapid recovery from the...

This article uses a prosopographical methodology and a new dataset of 1,558 CEOs from Britain's largest public companies between 1900 and 2009 to analyse how the role, social background, and career pathways of corporate leaders changed. We have four main findings: First, the designation of CEO...

This study explores how market power and financial flexibility shape corporate investment policies among U.S. large and mature corporations, by estimating firm-specific, time-varying investment-to-added-value sensitivities. We find that firms with market power exhibit lower investment...