CONTENTS

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xiv

List of Figures and Tables

pp xv-xv

Note on the Text

pp xvi-xvi

Part I - Introduction

Foreword: Financial Crises – Will it be Different Next Time?

pp 1-4

1 - Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises: A Historical View

pp 5-12

Part II - Episodes of Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crisis in History

2 - Contract Enforcement on the World's First Stock Exchange

pp 13-36

3 - Co-operative Banking in the Netherlands in pre-Second World War Crises

pp 37-54

4 - The Discreet Charm of Hidden Reserves: How Swiss Re Survived the Great Depression

pp 55-64

5 - The Redesign of the Bank–Industry–Financial Market Ties in the US Glass–Steagall and the 1936 Italian Banking Acts

pp 65-84

6 - Regulation and Deregulation in a Time of Stagflation: Siegmund Warburg and the City of London in the 1970s

pp 85-106

7 - Financial Market Integration: An Insurmountable Challenge to Modern Trade Policy?

pp 107-126

Part III - Innovation, Regulation and the Current Financial Crisis

8 - Something Old and Something New: Novel and Familiar Drivers of the Latest Crisis

pp 127-138

9 - To Regulate or Not to Regulate: No Easy Fixes for the Financial System

pp 139-142

Notes

pp 143-166

Index

pp 167-176