Structural Foundations of International Finance

Edited by Pier Carlo Padoan, Chairman, UniCredit Bank and Senior Fellow, LUISS Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP), LUISS University, Italy, Paul A. Brenton, Senior Economist in International Trade Development, The World Bank, US and the late Gavin Boyd, formerly Honorary Professor, Political Science Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US and Adjunct Professor, Management Faculty, Saint Mary’s University, Canada

• Contents: Foreword Preface 1. Economic Structures and Finance 2. From Overlending to Crisis, to a New International Financial Regime? Lessons from the 1990s 3. Analytical Perspectives on the Varieties of Capitalism and Structural Interdependencies: Implications for Multinational Business Finance 4. Financial Institutions and Financial Markets: The Emergence of a New Class of Universal Banks 5. International Banking Regulation 6. Technology, Productivity and Structural Change 7. Cracks in the Façade: American Economic and Financial Structures after the Boom 8. Industry and Finance in the EU: Integration, Enlargement and Economic Performance 9. Japanese Economic Structures and Finance: Characteristics and Causes of the Current Slowdown 10. Real Economies and Financial Sectors in Industrializing Countries 11. International Structural Cooperation and Financial Architecture Index