Readership: Business and economic historians interested in the history of international banking and finance.
Edited by Makoto Kasuya, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
Makoto Kasuya: Introduction Part I: Commercial Banking 1: Youssef Cassis: European Bankers in the Interwar Years 2: Michael Collins: British Commercial Bank Support for the Business Sector and the Pressure for Change 3: Eugene White: The New Deal and Commercial Banking Lending 4: Shinji Ogura: Mitsui Bank's Lending Policy in Transition in the Interwar Years Part II: Universal Banking 5: Eric Bussière: The French 'Banques d'Affaires' in the Interwar Period 6: Harald Wixforth: The German Banks and their Business Strategies inthe Weimar Republic: Preliminary results and new findings Part III: Insurance and Securities 7: Mariko Tatsuki: How Japanese Life Insurance Companies Coped with a Controlled Economy 8: Edwin Perkins: Growth Stocks for Middle-Class Investors: Merrill Lynch & Co., 1914-41 9: Makoto Kasuya: Securities Markets and a Securities Company in Interwar Japan: The case of Yamaichi
