The Political Economy of Banking Regulation, 1864–1933
- 3 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 42 (1) , 33-40
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002205070002684x
Abstract
The laws and regulations that shaped the structure of the banking industry from the Civil War to the Great Depression were strongly influenced by the banking community. In this period legal constraints on banks were weakened by competition between state and federal regulators trying to increase membership in their banking systems. The elimination of regulation was not completed, however, because the politically most powerful group in the industry, the unit banks, had an interest in preserving some regulations.Keywords
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