Since the nineteenth century, there has been an accepted distinction between financial systems that separate commercial and investment banking and those that do

This book poses a systematic challenge to Gerschenkron's 1950s thesis on universal banks. With contributions from leading scholars including Ranald Michie and J

Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this

This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe.

This volume presents essays that take a historical look at aspects of the finance-growth nexus.