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The Banking history in a global perspective – University of Turin, November 15th 2024

Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH)


Scuola di Economia e Management - University of Turin


Friday, November 15

10:30 Introduction, Michelangelo Vasta (USiena and Chief Editor of the RSE/IREH)


Session 1: The evolution of payment systems in historical perspective

Chair: Michelangelo Vasta (USiena)

10:40 Marco Molteni (UTorino), Giovanni Maria Pala (University of Oxford) and Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford), Fresh perspectives on cross-border payments in the 20th Century: the perspective from Italian correspondent banking

Discussant: Giuseppe De Luca (UMilano)

11:30 Federico Castelli (UMilano and UToulouse), The evolution of Banca Commerciale Italiana’s acceptance business in New York during interwar

Discussant: Paolo Di Martino (UTorino)


12:20-13:30 Lunch


Session 2. Banking crises: causes, effects, and memories

Chair: Giuseppe De Luca (UMilano)

13:30 Amélia Branco, Pedro Neves and Rita Martins de Sousa (ISEG - Lisbon School of Economic and Management), The Portuguese banking crisis at the moment of the suspension of the gold standard (1890/92)

Discussant: Paolo Di Martino (UTorino)

14:20 Tobias Pforr (EUI), Giuseppe Telesca (EUI), Niccolò Valmori (EUI), Regulation, narratives and the memory of the Great Depression: The end, and return, of universal banking in Italy and the US

Discussant: Maria Carmela Schisani (UNapoli, Federico II)


15:10 Paolo Di Martino (UTorino) and Michelangelo Vasta (USiena), Final comments


Each paper: 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussant and 10 minutes general discussion


Online participation is possible under request.

Contacts:

Paolo Di Martino


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University of Torino, Scuola di Economia e Management

Corso Unione Sovietica 218/bis, Torino

Room Cuneo (Nuovo Polo Didattico, First Floor)

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