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Studija o poslovnom bankarstvu Srbije u periodu od 1921. do 2011. godine, prvo je zaokruženo istraživanje o istorijskom razvoju bankarstva na celoj današnjoj teritoriji Republike. Iako

je u naslovu ove monografije naveden period 1921-2011, autor je sažeto i dokumentovano prikazao i period od osnivanja prvih finansijskih ustanova Srbije s početka 60-tih godina 19. veka.

Autor studije je Ile Kovačević, glavni i odgovorni urednik u zemlji i svetu poznatog i priznatog časopisa Pregled - Republika Srbija (ranije Jugoslovenski pregled), koji od 1960. godine izlazi i na engleskom. Kao autor vrednih makroekonomskih analiza i veliki znalac o tokovima nacionalne ekonomije, Kovačević je u svoj rukopis o usponima i padovima bankarstva i srpske privrede, utkao svoj dugogodišnji istraživački i uredničko-redaktorski rad, kao i danas sve ređe, dragoceno iskustvo u stručnom, objektivnom prikazivanju naše ekonomske stvarnosti. Upravo zahvaljujući tome što se ovog ambicioznog poduhvata uhvatio čovek koji je među malobrojnim zaslužnim za

objektivno, dokumentovano predstavljanje privrede Srbije u zemlji i svetu, studija - prvenac o istoriji poslovnog bankarstva Srbije ima

sve kvalitete naučne monografije.U prvom delu rukopisa je

obrađen period akcionarskog bankarstva između dva svetska rata (uz osvrt na prethodni period), u drugom delu dat je prikaz okupacionog bankarstva za vreme Drugog svetskog rata, dok treći deo monografije obuhvata prikaz razvoja posle Drugog svetskog kroz tri perioda: period do raspada SFRJ (1945-1991), period sankcija, hiperinflacije i izolacije Srbije (1992 - 2000), i treći period,

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A study on commercial banking in Serbia in the period from 1921 to 2011, this book is the first comprehensive research on the historical development of banking at the entire territory

of the Republic of Serbia today. Although the title of this monograph announces the period from 1921 to 2011, the author also briefly documented and presented the period since the establishment of the first financial institutes in Serbia in early 1860s.

The study was authored by Ile Kovacevic, Editor-in-Chief of the locally and internationally recognized and renowned magazine Survey - Republic of Serbia (former Yugoslav Survey), published bilingually, in Serbian and in English since 1960. Being the author of valuable macroeconomic analyses and an expert on the trends in the national economy, Kovacevic wove his rich experience of a researcher and editor, along with his precious - and today increasingly hard to find - experience in professional and objective presentation of our economic reality, into his manuscript about the ups and downs of banking and the Serbian economy. Due to the fact that this ambitious endeavour was undertaken by one of the few people we have to give credit for objective and documented depiction of the Serbian economy locally and globally, this study - the first of its kind dealing with the history of commercial banks in Serbia - bears all the qualities of a scientific monograph.

The first section of the manuscript depicts the period of shareholding-based banking in between the two world wars (with a brief overview of the preceding period); the second segment provides an overview of banking under occupation during the World War II, whereas the third part of the monograph

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označen kao period gašenja najvećih domaćih i prodor stranih banaka (2001-2011). Ovakva periodizacija obavezala je autora da, pored stanja u bankarstvu, prikaže i glavne odlike i izvore prava prema kojima su banke poslovale u svim navedenim periodima. On je to učinio u svojoj najboljoj tradiciji eksperta za sažetu i jasnu, sistematičnu i dokumentovanu prezentaciju relevantnih činjenica.

Tri su suštinska pitanja, koja autor Ile Kovačević obrađuje

u svakom od pomenutih delova studije: prvo, opšte stanje u privredi, sa posebnim akcentom na novčarstvo i bankarstvo; drugo, karakteristike formiranja mreže banaka i, treće, specifičnosti razvoja konkretnog bankarskog sistema. Ovakva metodološka doslednost u naučnoj obradi ključnih pitanja u odabranim periodima zasnovana na poznatim i novim izvorima, daje čitaocu mogućnost da svako od ova tri pitanja posmatra kao zasebnu pojavu dugog trajanja.

Poseban kvalitet studije Ileta Kovačevića o istoriji poslovnog bankarstva u Srbiji je njen enciklopedijski karakter. Autor je

uložio ogroman napor da tekst podupre nizom preglednih tabela i grafikona i da ga ilustruje izuzetnim fotografijama, faksimilima akcija banaka i drugih originalnih dokumenata i tako ga u svakom pogledu približi čitaocu. Najzad, zbog činjenice da je ova monografija objavljena u uporednom tekstu na srpskom i engleskom jeziku, ona će biti dostupna publici i svim istraživačima van granica Srbije koji se bave istorijom bankarstva u ovom delu Evrope.

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focuses on the development after the World War II in three stages: period up to the disintegration of the SFRY (1945-1991); period of sanctions, hyperinflation and isolation of Serbia (1992-2000); and the third period, marked by the liquidation of major domestic banks and penetration of foreign banks (2001-2011). Such periodization obliged the author to present, alongside the situation in banking, the main features and sources of rights according to which the banks were doing business in all three mentioned periods. He did so following the best tradition of experts on concise and clear, systematic and documented presentation of relevant facts.

There are three crucial issues that the author Ile Kovacevic elaborates on in each of the mentioned sections of his study: first, the general state of affairs in economy, with a special focus on money industry and banking; secondly, the characteristics of bank network formation, and thirdly, the specificities of development of a concrete banking system. Such methodological consistency in scientific processing of key issues in the given periods, based on both familiar and new sources, provides an opportunity to the reader to perceive each of these three issues as a separate and long-lasting phenomenon.

The special quality of Ile Kovacevic’s study on the history of commercial banking in Serbia is its encyclopaedic nature. The author invested huge efforts to support the text with a range of systematic tables and charts, and to illustrate it with exquisite photographs, facsimiles of banks’ shares and other original documents, thus making it more appealing to the reader. Finally, due to the fact that this monograph has been published bilingually in Serbian and in English, it will be available to the readers and researchers across the borders of Serbia, interested in the history of banking in this part of Europe.