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Record W1490802846 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511510762.011

Banking Panics and the Origin of Central Banking

2003· book-chapter· en· W1490802846 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gary Gorton, Lixin Huang

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2003
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicBanking stability, regulation, efficiency
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLender of last resortFinancial systemMonopolyCentral bankGreat DepressionEconomic historyBusinessEconomicsEconomyMarket economyPolitical scienceMonetary economicsMonetary policyLaw

Abstract

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Central banking is a twentieth-century phenomenon. According to Capie (1997), there were only 18 central banks at the beginning of the twentieth century. By 1950, there were 59 central banks, and by 1990 there were 161. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the U.S. Federal Reserve System had not yet been established; this would occur in 1914. The Bank of Canada came into being after the Great Depression, in 1934. Prior to the twentieth century, central banks were established as institutions with monopoly rights over money issuance. But if a critical element of central banking is the function of lender of last resort, then these institutions generally did not become central banks until later, typically during the twentieth century. For example, although the Bank of England was established in 1694, it did not behave as a lender of last resort until much later (Lovell 1957).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.990
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.162 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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