Financial Structures and Regulation: a Comparison of Crises in the UK, USA and Italy (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period. The current turmoil has prompted a number of questions regarding both its origins and ways to avoid its repetition. The historical background and the evolving institutional framework of banking and financial systems are at the center of this book.