Financial Deregulation A Historical Perspective

Alexis Drach, Research Associate in International Economic History, Glasgow University, UK,Youssef Cassis, Research Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy

Alexis Drach is Research Associate at Glasgow University. He holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence. His interests lie in the history of banking regulation and supervision, banks' internationalisation, European integration, globalisation, and expertise. He is part of the project EURECON, 'The Making of a Lopsided Union: European Economic Integration, 1957-1992' funded by a grant from the European Research Council. He studies British and French bankers' positions towards European banking regulation proposals until 1992.


Youssef Cassis is Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, and Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project on 'The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk'. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His most recent books include Crises and Opportunities. The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011), and, with Philip Cottrell, Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat and Resurgence (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has also recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, (Oxford University Press, 2016, with Richard Grossman and Catherine Schenk).

Foreword, Youssef Cassis
1. Introduction, Alexis Drach
2. Financial Deregulation in the United States, Jo?o Rafael Cunha
3. Financial Deregulation in the United Kingdom, Forrest Capie
4. Drivers of Financial Deregulation in Japan, Eiji Hotori
5. Removing Obstacles to Integration: The European Way to Deregulation, Alexis Drach
6. Fifty Years of Financial Regulation in Germany, Christoph Kaserer
7. Financial Deregulation in France, Olivier Feiertag
8. Deregulation, Regulatory Convergence or Escaping from Inefficiency? The Italian Financial System in the 1970s-1980s, Giandomenico Piluso
9. Swinging the bank regulation pendulum into a new paradigm - the case of the EU, Agnieszka Smolenska