History and Financial Crisis : Lessons from the 20th Century (Hardcover)

1. The ‘2008 Crisis’ in an economic history perspective: Looking at the twentieth century Christopher Kobrak and Mira Wilkins  2. Financial crisis, contagion, and the British banking system between the world wars Mark Billings and Forrest Capie  3. New perspectives on the 1931 banking crisis in Germany and Central Europe Christopher Kopper  4. Banks and Swedish financial crises in the 1920s and 1930s Mikael Lonnborg, Anders Ogren and Michael Rafferty  5. Canada and the United States: Different roots, different routes to financial sector regulation Donald J.S. Brean, Lawrence Kryzanowski and Gordon S. Roberts  6. The effect of banking crises on deposit growth: State-level evidence from 1900 to 1930 Carlos D. Ramirez  7. Concluding Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Financial History: Panics and Public Policy Christopher Kobrak