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10 - A World Political Problem (June 11–June 16)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2024

Per H. Hansen
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
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Chapter 10, A world political problem (June 11 - June 16). This chapter recounts the endgame of the Austrian crisis, while instability spreads to Germany. Norman comes to realize that in reality there is not much the central banks can do, since the real issue is "a world political problem" going all the way back to the Versaille Peace Agreement of 1919, the German war reparations and the allied’s war debts. The International Creditors Committee negotiate in Vienna with the Credit Anstalt and the Austrian government and at the very last minute they succeed in getting guarantee for their deposits, while promising to leave them for at least two years. At the same time, on June 16, negotiations with French bankers over the Austrian bond loans fails, and the Bank of England singlehandedly steps in with a bridge credit to the government. Together, the loan and the standstill agreement stops the Austrian crisis, at least for a while.

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There Will Be the Devil to Pay
Central Bankers, Uncertainty and Sensemaking in the European Financial Crisis of 1931
, pp. 163 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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