Exchange banks and the fall of silver
New balance-sheet archives of the Chartered Bank and the Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China.
Ongoing research
Ongoing work on exchange banks and the late nineteenth-century fall of silver, including newly acquired balance-sheet archives of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and the Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China.
Funded by JSPS KAKENHI (基盤C, 2024–2029): “Accounting for the Fall of Silver? Western Exchange Banking Practice, 1870–1910”.
Methodological notes, source choices, calculations, and interpretations are kept in the research logbooks on GitHub.