State and Financial Systems in Europe and the USA - Historical Perspectives on Regulation and Supervision in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many advanced and developing countries. The essays in this collection shed light on different aspects of the experience of financial regulation, ownership and deregulation in Europe and the USA from a secular historical perspective. The colle

List of contents

Introduction, Stefano Battilossi, Jaime Reis; Chapter 1 ‘Conservative abroad, liberal at home’: British Banking Regulation during the Nineteenth Century, Philip L. Cottrell; Chapter 2 Lobbying, Institutional Inertia, and the Efficiency Issue in State Regulation: Evidence from the Evolution of Bankruptcy Laws and Procedures in Italy, England, and the US (c.1870–1939), Paolo Di Martino; Chapter 3 Regulation and Governance: A Secular Perspective on the Development of the American Financial System, Eugene N. White; Chapter 4, Ranald C. Michie; Chapter 5, Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, André Straus; Chapter 6, Richard S. Grossman; Chapter 7, Pablo Martín-Aceña, Teresa Tortella; Chapter 8 The Regulation of International Financial Markets from the 1950s to the 1990s, Catherine R. Schenk; Chapter 9 The Missing Link: International Banking Supervision in the Archives of the BIS, Piet Clement; Chapter 10, Peter Englund, Vesa Vihriälä

About the author

Stefano Battilossi, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain; and Jaime Reis, Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal

Summary

During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many advanced and developing countries. The essays in this collection shed light on different aspects of the experience of financial regulation, ownership and deregulation in Europe and the USA from a secular historical perspective. The colle

Product details

• Authors: Jaime Reis
• Assisted by: Stefano Battilossi (Editor), Battilossi Stefano (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032925936
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92593-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 440 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Economic history, Social & political philosophy, c 1500 onwards to present day, social and political philosophy, Archaeology, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards