Contents: Introduction, P L Cottrell; Finance and the Germination of the British Corporate Economy, P L Cottrell; Banking on Branches: The Origins and Development of Branch Banking in the United Kingdom, C W Munn; The Business and Politics of Banking in Ireland 1900-1943, Philip Ollerenshaw; Characteristics of the Japanese Financial System during the Inter-War Period, Shoichi Asajima; Japanese Industrial Enterprises and the Financial Market Between the Two World Wars, Juro Hashimoto; The Industrial Bank of Japan During the Inter-War Period, Satoshi Saito; The Role of the Central Bank in Industrial Finance - a Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Japan, Takashi Iida; Britain's changing corporate structure and the crisis of central bank control in the 1920s, R Boyce; Deficient Suppliers? Commercial Banks in the United Kingdom 1870-1980, Forrest Capie and Michael Collins; The Origins of the 'Macmillan Gap': comparing Britain and Germany in the Early Twentieth Century, Dieter Ziegler; The 'Macmillan Gap' and the British Credit Market in the 1930s, Duncan M Ross; British Banks in the Euro-Markets, and Industrial Finance 1965-1985, Takao Kamikawa., Index.
