Saturday, 10 August 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS on 1914: Banks at War. European banks confronted by WWI

Conference takes place:
Jun 14, 2014 - Jun 14, 2014

Paper Submission Deadline:
Sep 01, 2013

Deadline for participant registration:
not specified
Rueschlikon, Switzerland 

Contact Details
Carmen Hofmann
European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) e.V.

Summary
•       Competition and co-operation between banks: financial war in the 1910s?
•       The  march  to  war:  first  worries  and  anticipations  (second Moroccan crisis, Balkan Wars, spring–summer 1914)
•    The outbreak of war: immediate reactions in August– September 1914
•       The first months of war (first term of 1914): the adaptation of banking organisations
•       Entrenched war and entrenched banks (1915–1916): resilience and reorganisation
•       Financing European economic war and the militarisation of the state (1915–1916)
•       An outlook on the mobilisation of staff at war, the recruitment of workforces, the social management of the headquarters and branches
•       Investment and brokerage banking to finance the war effort
•       Banks involved in the financing and financial achievement of transatlantic cooperation, in the financing of commodities trade, in FOREX operations
•       The daily life of branches, of the headquarters, of the labour- ers, etc.
•       WWI in the commemorative culture of European banks.
Deadlines
Paper proposals (not exceeding one page) and a recent CV should be sent until 1 September 2013 to:
info@bankinghistory.de.
Project outline by:
•         Hubert Bonin (Bordeaux University),
•         Martin Müller (Deutsche Bank),
•         Francesca Pino (Intesa-San Paolo)
•         Salvatore Novaretti (SwissRe)

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