This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each. Using an approach from the field of industrial economics, the...

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. European financial liberalization since WWII -- 3. Empirical trends in European finance -- 4. Financial liberalization and the onset of financial crisis in Western Europe between 1983 and 2011 -- 5. A political economy of European financial integration -- 6....

This book analyzes how financial liberalization affected the development of the financial crisis in Europe, with particular attention to the ways in which power asymmetries within Western Europe facilitated financial liberalization and distributed the costs and gains from it. The author combines...