Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30-year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to protect their local monopolies, and the inherent instability...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Characteristics of Corporate Offenders -- 2 Theory of Offending Convenience -- 3 Corporate Deviance Accounts -- 4 Corporate Crisis-Response Match -- Part II: Empirical Studies -- 5 Telia Telecom in Sweden -- 6...