This paper seeks to understand the Asian crisis through the eyes of the City of London. Relying upon material provided by <I>The Financial Times</I> (FT), we construct an index of pessimism to chart the dominant City of London interpretation of the path of the crisis. This index is set against data on...</i>

If its prospects were doubted in the early 1990s, London is now the pre-eminent international financial centre. It dominates its European rivals and is joined with New York and Tokyo in a non-stop reciprocal global embrace. Whereas some analysts approach this topic concentrating on the nature...

Scandals of corporate governance in the United States and Europe in the aftermath of the TMT bubble captured the public imagination. In play were the interests of senior executives in relation to investors, prompting debate over countries' standards of corporate governance in the global market...