Finance, intermediaries, and economic development

I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE -- Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn -- Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene N. White -- No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS -- Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy Angela Redish -- Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 John B. Legler, Richard Sylla -- Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 Kenneth A. Snowden -- III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION -- Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital Dianne Newell -- Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 Robert C. Allen -- Was adherence to the gold standard a "good housekeeping seal of approval" during the interwar period? Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff