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Research interests

  • The causes and consequences of financial crises, especially the role of bank runs
  • The comparative industrial organisation of financial systems
  • Microfinance in historical perspective
  • The economic history of the inter-war era
  • Historical geographic information systems

Publications

C. L. Colvin (2009), 'What determines interbank competition? And why should we care?', Oxonomics: Oxford University Economic Studies, Issue 4, No. 2, Pages 10-20, DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-5209.2009.00034.x [Abstract] [PDF]


Work in progress

C. L. Colvin (2010), 'Interbank competition and financial stability: the case of Dutch cooperative banks in the early twentieth century', New Researchers' Papers, Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Durham, Session I/E (26 March) [PDF]

C. L. Colvin (2008), 'Confidence before the crash: A visual guide to possible determinants of the 1920s Dutch cooperative crisis', Poster Session, Economic History Association Annual Conference, Yale University (13 September) [Poster] [Journal of Economic History abstract]

C. L. Colvin (2007), 'Universal banking failure? An analysis of the contrasting responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s', LSE Economic History Working Paper Series, No. 98/07 (March) [PDF] [Time Magazine feature]















Last updated on 6 July 2010