CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Figures

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - The Social Mechanisms of Financial Convergence

1 - Organizations of National Financial Markets and Convergence of Practices: Institutions and Networks of Parisian Brokers in Nineteenth-Century Parisian Financial Markets

pp 9-28

2 - The Resistance of the Lille Marketplace to National Convergence: A Regional Financial System between Autonomy and Sclerosis, 1880–1914

pp 29-50

3 - Competition amongst the French Stock Exchanges during the Second World War

pp 51-68

Part II - National Convergences and Divergences in the Long Term

4 - Shocks Impact on Long-Term Market Correlations: Portfolio Diversification and Market Integration between France and the United States

pp 69-88

5 - Assessing Convergence in European Investment Banking Patterns until 1914

pp 89-108

6 - Swiss Banking Crises During the Gold Standards, 1906–71

pp 109-126

Part III - Convergence and Historical Shocks

7 - Determinants of National Financial Systems: The Role of Historical Events

pp 127-144

8 - The Financing of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–9

pp 145-160

9 - The London Financial Crisis of 1914

pp 161-178

Part IV - Convergence and Monetary Constraint

10 - The Establishment of the Gold Standard in Southeast Europe: Convergence to a New System or Divergence from an Old One?

pp 179-196

11 - Money Creation under the Gold Standard: The Origins of the Italian Banking Crisis of 1893

pp 197-218

12 - Financing Germany: Amsterdam's Role as an International Financial Centre, 1914–31

pp 219-240

Notes

pp 241-276

Works Cited

pp 277-300

Index

pp 301-306