The comparative and single-country chapters compare the extent of ‘market-based banking’ across eleven countries, including all of the G7 economies. The chapters also consider the impact of the financial crisis in terms of necessary government support and lending to non-financial companies. This volume includes work by authors who are widely respected experts in national political economies, finance, financial regulation, banking, central banking, and monetary policy. It is one of the first book-length comparative studies of the financial crisis and its impact and one of the few recent comparative studies of national banking and financial systems in any discipline–Jacket, p. [4].
