Introduction : market internationalisation, policy, and national economic institutions -- Analysing market internationalisation and national institutions -- The internationalisation of securities markets -- Common pressures, diverse paths : securities trading in France, West Germany, and Italy...

Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe's governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and...