Alexis Drach is Research Associate at Glasgow University. He holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence. His interests lie in the history of banking regulation and supervision, banks' internationalisation, European integration, globalisation, and expertise. He is part of the project EURECON, 'The Making of a Lopsided Union: European Economic Integration, 1957-1992' funded by a grant from the European Research Council. He studies British and French bankers' positions towards European banking regulation proposals until 1992.
Youssef Cassis is Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, and Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project on 'The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk'. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His most recent books include Crises and Opportunities. The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011), and, with Philip Cottrell, Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat and Resurgence (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has also recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, (Oxford University Press, 2016, with Richard Grossman and Catherine Schenk).

• Foreword


• 1: Alexis Drach: Introduction


• 2: João Rafael Cunha: Financial Deregulation in the United States


• 3: Forrest Capie: Financial Deregulation in the United Kingdom


• 4: Eiji Hotori: Drivers of Financial Deregulation in Japan


• 5: Alexis Drach: Removing Obstacles to Integration: The European Way to Deregulation


• 6: Christoph Kaserer: Fifty Years of Financial Regulation in Germany


• 7: Olivier Feiertag: Financial Deregulation in France


• 8: Giandomenico Piluso: Deregulation, Regulatory Convergence or Escaping from Inefficiency? The Italian Financial System in the 1970s-1980s


• 9: Agnieszka Smolenska: Swinging the bank regulation pendulum into a new paradigm - the case of the EU

This edited volume is the first archival based historical investigation on the liberalization measures taken in various countries in the financial sector in the decades following the Bretton Woods system, from a comparative and a global perspective.