Table of Contents

Youssef Cassis, Giuseppe De Luca, and Massimo Florio: Introduction: The History of European Infrastructure Finance: An Analytical Framework
Part One: The History of European Infrastructure Finance: From the Middle Ages to the Present Era
1: Giuseppe De Luca: Infrastructure Financing in Medieval Europe: On and Beyond 'Roman Ways'
2: Marcella Lorenzini: Infrastructure Financing in the Early Modern Age: The Beginning of a 'Little Divergence'
3: Youssef Cassis: Infrastructure Investments and the Shaping of Modern Finance
Part Two: Water
4: Massimo Florio: Corvée versus Money in Water Infrastructure in the Alps: The Rû Courtaud, 1393-2013
5: Olivier Crespi Reghizzi: The Finance of Local Public Goods at the Onset of Industrialization: Water in Paris, 1807-1925
6: Hugh Goldsmith and Dan Carter: The Finance of Local Public Goods at the Onset of Industrialization: Water in London, 1582-1904
Part Three: Transport
7: Enrico Berbenni: Paying for the First Motorways: Italy, 1923-1941
8: Pedro Paolo Ortúñez Goicolea: Railway Financing before Nationalization: Spain, 1855-1941
9: Björn Wündsch: Railway Financing: Europe in the 20th Century
Part Four: Telecommunications
10: Damir Agic and Nico Grove: Role of the State in Telecommunications Infrastructure Financing across Europe: The Telephony Service from 1880s to World War I
11: Simone Fari: Financing Telegraph Infrastructures, 1850-1900
12: Matteo Landoni: The Public-Private Partnership in the Italian Satellite Telecommunication System Design: SIRIO and Italsat, 1969-1996

About the Author

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute, Florence. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His numerous publications on the subject include City Bankers, 1890-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Big Business. The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1997), Capitals of Capital. A History of
International Financial Centres, 1780-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Crises and Opportunities. The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011). He was the cofounder, in 1994, of Financial History Review
(Cambridge University Press) and is a past President (2005-2007) of the European Business History Association.
Giuseppe De Luca is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan. He holds a PhD in Economic and Social History from the University Bocconi and has been visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the University of Valladolid. He is a specialist in early modern European finance and financing, with a focus on Italy and the Spanish Empire. He is currently collaborating on cross-country comparisons of informal credit markets, on a Spanish National
Research Council project on 'Banks in Madrid and Milan under the Habsburgs'. Massimo Florio is Professor of Public Economics and the Jean Monnet Chair 'ad personam' of EU Industrial Policy at the University
of Milan, where he has also been the head of the Department of Economics, Business, and Statistics. He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, where he started his research on privatisation, leading to his books The Great Divestiture (MIT Press, 2004) and more recently Network Industries and Social Welfare (OUP, 2013). For more than 20 years, Professor Florio has advised the European Commission and other international organisations on social
cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure projects.