Financial Structures and Regulation: A Comparison of Crises in the UK, USA and Italy

1. Some Introductory Remarks about Banks, Financial Structures, Crises and Their Cost
Alessandro Roselli

Part I. The Interwar Period

2. Financial Depth in Three Economies: The UK, the US, Italy
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3. The Great Depression and Britain
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4. The United States: Boom and Depression
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5. Italy: Finance in a Fascist State
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Part II. Financial Stability and Evolution in the Postwar Decades (A “Golden Age”?)

6. Financial Deepening in the Three Economies
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7. The United Kingdom: Not So Stable
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8. The United States: Big Government and Big Bank
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9. Italy’s Recovery
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Part III. The Recent Period

10. The Broad Framework
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11. Financial Structure of the Three Economies: Never So Deep
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12. Growth and Collapse of the Shadow Banking System in the United States
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13. A Severe Test for London as World Financial Centre
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14. Italy: Financially More Stable, but Structural Problems Persist
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15. Conclusion
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Keywords: Finance, Banking, Risk Management, Accounting/Auditing, Business Finance, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Public Finance