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List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
List of Tables | p. xv |
Preface | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Challenge of Intermediation | p. 1 |
Banking and Economic Growth | p. 5 |
Securities Markets, Banks, and Other Intermediators | p. 10 |
The Scope of This Book | p. 13 |
The Argument | p. 16 |
Chapter Outline | p. 27 |
The Origins of Banking | p. 28 |
Early Banking Functions | p. 30 |
Credit Creation | p. 32 |
Medieval Beginnings, Modern Prerequisites | p. 35 |
Government Debt and the Beginnings of Government Banks | p. 38 |
Government Banks | p. 41 |
Private Banks | p. 45 |
Commercial Banks | p. 48 |
Banking Crises | p. 53 |
Financial Crises and Banking Crises | p. 54 |
The Consequences of Banking Crises | p. 59 |
The Causes of Banking Crises: Hypotheses | p. 61 |
Evidence from before 1870 | p. 64 |
Evidence from 1870 to World War I | p. 66 |
Evidence from the Interwar Period | p. 74 |
A Durable Pattern | p. 81 |
Rescuing the Banking System: Bailouts, Lenders of Last Resort, and More Extreme Measures | p. 83 |
Bailouts | p. 86 |
Lenders of Last Resort | p. 98 |
More Extreme Measures | p. 104 |
Making the Cure Less Costly than the Disease | p. 107 |
Merger Movements | p. 110 |
Consequences of Mergers | p. 111 |
The Urge to Merge | p. 112 |
Evidence | p. 115 |
Matching Evidence with Explanations | p. 120 |
Regulation | p. 128 |
Motives for Regulation | p. 129 |
Entry Regulation | p. 134 |
The Emergence of Charters | p. 134 |
Banking Codes versus Corporation Law | p. 141 |
Capital Requirements | p. 145 |
The Role of Capital | p. 145 |
Market Capital Requirements | p. 147 |
Explaining Government Capital Requirements | p. 150 |
The Impact of Government Capital Requirements | p. 155 |
Other Regulations | p. 157 |
Universal Banking | p. 157 |
Identity of the Banking Supervisor | p. 162 |
Summary | p. 167 |
Banking Evolution in England | p. 169 |
The Bank of England and British Government Finance | p. 170 |
Private Banking in London and the Provinces | p. 173 |
Joint Stock Banking Regulation, 1826-57 | p. 175 |
Mergers | p. 183 |
Crises and Responses | p. 189 |
Fiscally Driven Evolution | p. 195 |
Banking Evolution in Sweden | p. 197 |
The Riksbank and the Beginnings of Swedish Banking | p. 198 |
Bank Politics and Legislation: Enskilda Banks | p. 202 |
The Emergence of Modern Banking | p. 207 |
Mergers, Crises, and Government Intervention, 1903-39 | p. 209 |
Universal Banking | p. 215 |
Sweden in a Nordic Context | p. 217 |
Banking Evolution in the United States | p. 221 |
The First and Second Banks of the United States, 1791-1836 | p. 222 |
From Chartered to Free Banking, 1837-62 | p. 229 |
The National Banking Era, 1863-1913 | p. 230 |
The Crisis of 1907 and the Founding of the Federal Reserve | p. 243 |
The Great Depression | p. 245 |
Summary | p. 249 |
Constrained and Deregulated Banking in the Twentieth Century and Beyond | p. 251 |
Constrained Banking | p. 251 |
The Era of Deregulation Begins | p. 260 |
Crises and Rescues | p. 266 |
Herstatt and Franklin National | p. 267 |
The U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis | p. 269 |
The Nordic Crises | p. 272 |
Japan's "Lost Decade" | p. 276 |
Crises and Rescues: Summary | p. 281 |
Mergers | p. 282 |
Regulation | p. 284 |
Appendixes | |
Appendix to Chapter 2 | p. 291 |
Appendix to Chapter 3 | p. 297 |
Appendix to Chapter 5 | p. 317 |
Bibliography | p. 321 |
Index | p. 375 |
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