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Banking in the Bush

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  • Florian Ploeckl
  • Adam Baird

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The State Savings Bank of Victoria (SSBV) played a pivotal role as the first public bank to offer financial services, including deposit banking and agricultural loans, across rural areas in Victoria. This study investigates the spatial distribution and activities of the SSBV within rural municipalities between Federation and World War I. The SSBV's presence exhibited a nuanced interplay between population density and spatial coverage but was primarily associated with its deposit banking services. Agricultural loans demonstrated a correlation with both population patterns and agricultural suitability of each municipality, while deposit banking volumes at SSBV locations closely tracked local economic activity reflected by the revenues of corresponding local post offices. Furthermore, despite losing its post office distribution network to the newly established Commonwealth Bank in 1912, the SSBV successfully attracted additional new customers in locations where it created new full branch offices in response.

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  • Florian Ploeckl & Adam Baird, 2025. "Banking in the Bush," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 101(S1), pages 3-25, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:101:y:2025:i:s1:p:3-25
    DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12879
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