The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909
Cooperatively-owned Raiffeisen banks first emerged in the Netherlands in the late 1890s and spread rapidly across the country. Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of their market entry and early performance. We find that the cooperative organisational form, when allied to a change in the structure of Dutch agriculture and the socioreligious pillarisation of Dutch society, was an important factor explaining their entry into rural financial markets. While religious organisations provided a necessary impetus for the emergence of Raiffeisen banks, the economic advantages associate... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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s.l.: European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / G21 / N23 / N83 / Cooperative banking / the Netherlands / Raiffeisen / religion |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29217096 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/247056 |