Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Holding shareholders to account
- 2 Banking instability and risk shifting
- 3 The evolution of British banking structure and stability since 1800
- 4 Major and minor British banking crises since 1800
- 5 Banking stability, shareholder liability and bank capital
- 6 Averting or creating banking crises? The lender of last resort and bank rescues
- 7 Banking stability and bank regulation
- 8 Restoring banking stability: Policy and political economy
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Holding shareholders to account
- 2 Banking instability and risk shifting
- 3 The evolution of British banking structure and stability since 1800
- 4 Major and minor British banking crises since 1800
- 5 Banking stability, shareholder liability and bank capital
- 6 Averting or creating banking crises? The lender of last resort and bank rescues
- 7 Banking stability and bank regulation
- 8 Restoring banking stability: Policy and political economy
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Banking in CrisisThe Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present, pp. vPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014