1. Financial reform in Australia -- 2. Price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil -- 3. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany -- 6. Financial reform in Hong Kong -- 7. Financial...

There has been renewed interest in the role of financial elites since the economic crisis of 2008. This edited book examines the role of financial elites from a historical perspective through a series of studies of various European countries throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Juan Fernssndez de Guevara and José Manuel Pastor -- Financial stability and economic growth / Santiago Carbó Valverde and Luis Pedauga -- Financial crisis and EU banks' performance / Ted Lindblom and Magnus Willesson -- Diversification, diversity and...