Introduction 1
Part I: Theoretical conjectures on banking, finance,
and politics
1 Capital scarcity, capital mobility, and information
asymmetry: a survey 9
2 The institutions of capital mobility 19
Part II: The first expansion (1850–1913)
3 The advent of deposit banking 39
4 The internationalization of finance 74
5 The origins of corporate securities markets 89
6 The origins of universal banking 104
Part III: The second expansion (1960–2000)
7 Sectoral realignment 129
8 The globalization of banking 156
9 The growth of securities markets 174
10 Choosing the right product mix 197
Conclusion 216
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Appendixes
1 A model of core–periphery relations in the financial sector 222
2 The four credit sectors 238
3 A measure of state centralization 250
4 A measure of universal banking 255
5 Dataset for chapter 9 258
Bibliography 260
Citations index 283
Subject index 287