Table of Contents

1: Youssef Cassis, Richard Grossman, and Catherine Schenk: General Introduction
Part I: Thematic issues
2: Youssef Cassis: Financial History and History
3: John Turner: Financial History and Financial Economics
4: Gerard Caprio: Finance and Economic Development
Part II: Financial Institutions
5: Youssef Cassis: Private Banks and Private Banking
6: Gerarda Westerhuis: Commercial Banking
7: Caroline Fohlin: Investment Banking
8: Chris Kobrak: From Multinational to Transnational Banking
9: Dan Wadhwani: Small-scale Credit Institutions
Part III: Financial Markets
10: Stefano Battilossi: Money Markets
11: Ranald Michie: Securities Markets
12: Moritz Schularick: International Capital Flows
13: Youssef Cassis: Financial Centres
Part IV: Financial Regulation
14: Angela Redish: Monetary Systems
15: Forrest Capie: Central Banks
16: Harold James: International Financial Cooperation
17: Catherine Schenk and Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol: Regulation and Deregulation
18: Laure Quennouëlle-Corre: State and Finance
Part V: Financial Crises
19: Richard Grossman: Banking Crises
20: Peter Temin: Currency Crises
21: Juan Flores: Sovereign Debt Defaults

About the Author

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His most recent publications include Capitals of Capital. A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005, (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2nd revised edition, 2010), Crises and Opportunities. The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011); and, with
Philip L. Cottrell, Private Banking in Europe. Rise, Retreat and Resurgence (Oxford University Press, 2015). He was the cofounder, in 1994, of Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press). He was
also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and past President (2005-2007) of the European Business History Association. Richard S. Grossman is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author of Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 (Princeton, 2010) and WRONG: Nine Economic
Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them (Oxford, 2013). He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a research network fellow of CESifo in Munich, and an
associate editor for socioeconomics, health policy, and law at the journal Neurosurgery. He has held visiting positions at the US Department of State, Yale University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Catherine Schenk FRHS is Professor of International Economic History at the University of Glasgow. She gained her PhD at the London School of Economics and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, Victoria University of Wellington and visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as the University of Hong Kong. She is Associate Fellow in the international economics department at Chatham House in London. Her research
focuses on international monetary and financial relations after 1945 with a particular emphasis on East Asia and the United Kingdom. She is the author of several books including International Economic
Relations since 1945 (2011) and The Decline of Sterling: managing the retreat of an international currency (2010).

Reviews

The book is a good one, indeed financial economists and graduate students in particular will be well served to read it. I feel a lot of finance research today is conducted in the absence of historical context, and so this book is a good start to filling that void, especially since (as far as I am aware) there is no equivalent alternative out there.
*Phong T. H. Ngo (Australian National University), Economic Record*

The global financial crisis that began in 2007-08 and continued to rattle the Eurozone countries after 2010 has certainly been good for the market for financial history. The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History is clearly a response to these events. In their introductory chapter, the editors set out their ambitious agenda, which is to deal with the individual parts of our modern complex financial system and trace how each has evolved over time. Each chapter ends with some insight into how the current turmoil in global banking and finance might affect part of the global financial system. This broad-ranging approach is very much in keeping with current analysis by policy economists, who have become very sensitive to how our financial system intertwines banks.
*Larry Neil, University of Illinois*