§16§Contents : Practical Corner: The Evolution of the Exchange Rate from "Sacrosanct" Parity to Flexible Monetary Policy Instrument.- Historical Studies: The Society for Business History: A Decade of Work. The Bankers Simon and Abraham Oppenheim 1812-1880. The Private Background to Their Professional Activity, their Role in Politics and Ennoblement. Russian Business in the Brüning Era.- Reviews of Literature: A Review of the New Literature on Business History.- A Review of the New Literature on Banking History. Reports on Conferences. The German Yearbook on Business History is a source of insights into the entrepreneurial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries. It contains translations of topical journal articles and informative reviews of results and trends in business history research. As in the previous Yearbooks, the authors of this volume are experts in economic theory and practice whose contributions cover a wide spectrum. §04§Practical Corner.- The Evolution of the Exchange Rate from "Sacrosanct" Parity to Flexible Monetary Policy Instrument.- Historical Studies.- The Society for Business History: A Decade of Work.- The Bankers Simon and Abraham Oppenheim 1812-1880. The Private Background to Their Professional Activity, their Role in Politics and Ennoblement.- Russian Business in the Brüning Era.- Reviews of Literature.- A Review of the New Literature on Business History.- A Review of the New Literature on Banking History.- Reports on Conferences.- Technical Reconstruction After 1945.- The Medium Scale Enterprises and the Labour Market. Do the Medium Scale Enterprises Solve the Employment Problems of the German Economy?.- Innovations and Changes in the Employment Structure in Banking.- The Development of Savings Banks to Full-Service Credit Institutes.- Credit Institutions and Securities Markets.- The Influences of Motorisation on the Transport Industry from 1886 to 1986.- Symposium on the Economic Dev §04§elopment and Economic History of the Euregio Maas-Rhein. §01§Hans Pohl ist emeritierter Professor für Verfassungs-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der Universität Bonn. §01§Bernd Rudolph studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre und wurde 1972 zum Dr. rer. pol. promoviert. Nach seiner Habilitation im Fach Betriebswirtschaftslehre war er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Kreditwirtschaft und Finanzierung an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und darüber hinaus Direktor des Instituts für Kapitalmarktforschung. Ab 1993 lehrte er als Professor an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Heute ist er Professor an der ADG Business School, Montabaur.
