Birth of a market : the U.S. Treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression / / Kenneth D. Garbade.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Garbade, Kenneth D.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 393 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Introduction : before the Great War
• The payments system before World War I
• Treasury debt management before World War I : financing the Great War
• Treasury finance during World War I
• Designing the liberty loans
• Marketing the liberty loans
• Treasury cash management : certificates of indebtedness
• Treasury cash management : war loan deposit accounts
• Federal Reserve support of the treasury market during World War I
• Coda on treasury debt management during World War I : paying down the war debt
• Treasury finance during the 1920s
• Paying down the war debt
• Revival of the over-the-counter market
• Evolution of the primary market and the introduction of treasury bills
• Coda on treasury debt management during the 1920s : the Great Depression
• Treasury finance during the Great Depression
• Non-marketable treasury debt
• Treasury debt management during the great contraction
• Treasury debt management during the new deal
• The primary market during the Great Depression
• Statutory control of treasury indebtedness
• The brief revival and subsequent extinction of national bank notes
• Coda on treasury debt management during the Great Depression
• Treasury debt management since 1939.