Financial centres and international capital flows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, Youssef Cassis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Laure Quennouëlle-Corre -- The battle of the bourses? : competition between stock exchanges in the twentieth century / Ranald C. Michie -- An 'atypical' case? : the first emergence of Brussels as an international financial centre, 1830-1860 / Stefano Ugolini -- 'Rivalry and collaboration' : relations between Buenos Aires merchant bankers and European bankers in the issue of Argentine government bonds in the 1880s / Carlos Marichal -- St Petersburg exchange : on the road to maturity : industrial stock index, 1897-1914 / Leonid I. Borodkin and Gregory Perelman -- London as the global market for corporate securities before 1914 / Leslie Hannah -- Wall Street transitions, 1880-1920 : from national to world financial centre / Richard Sylla -- The decline of Paris as an international financial Centre 1914-1940 / Laure Quennouëlle-Corre -- The Banque du France, the Bank of England, and the stabilization of the Romanian currency in the late 1920s / Ileana Racianu -- An integrated European market without an international financial centre, 1945-1962? / André Straus -- The re-emergence of Hong Kong as an international financial centre, 1960-1978 : contested internationalization / Catherine R. Schenk.

As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our understanding of the workings and history of financial centres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the determinants of their success and failure. The book brings together leading authorities in the field to examine the direction of international capital flows historically in light of the nature of the banking system, market organization, the regulatory framework, and contextual political and diplomatic factors. Contributions discuss competition, collaboration, withdrawal, and re-emergence of financial centres in Europe, America, and Asia over the past two centuries. -- Jacket.