Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History

Piet Clement, Harold James, Herman Van der Wee

• Chapter 1 Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises: A Historical View, Piet Clement, Harold James, Herman Van der Wee; Chapter 2 Contract Enforcement on the World’s First Stock Exchange, Lodewijk Petram; Chapter 3 Co-Operative Banking in the Netherlands in Pre-Second World War Crises, Joke Mooij; Chapter 4 The Discreet Charm of Hidden Reserves: How Swiss Re Survived the Great Depression, Tobias Straumann; Chapter 5 The Redesign of the Bank-Industry-Financial Market Ties in the us Glass-Steagall and the 1936 Italian Banking Acts, Federico Barbiellini Amidei, Claire Giordano; Chapter 6 Regulation and Deregulation In a Time of Stagflation: Siegmund Warburg and the City of London in the 1970s, Niall Ferguson; Chapter 7 Financial Market Integration: An Insurmountable Challenge to Modern Trade Policy?, Welf Werner; Chapter 8 Something Old and Something New: Novel and Familiar Drivers of the Latest Crisis, Adair Turner; Chapter 9 To Regulate Or Not to Regulate: No Easy Fixes for the Financial System, William R. White;