Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- 1. Financial Structure and Corporate Governance in Europe, the US, and Asia -- 2. Finance and Growth: A Macroeconomic Assessment of the Evidence from a European Angle -- 3. Interaction Effects in the Relationship Between Growth and Finance -- 4. The Role of Financial Markets and Innovation for Productivity and Growth in Europe -- 5. Measuring European Financial Integration -- 6. Financial Integration and Economic Welfare -- PART II FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR -- 7. Corporate Finance in Europe: A Survey -- 8. The Economics of the EU's Corporate-insolvency Law and the Quest for Harminisation by Market Forces -- 9. Takeovers -- 10. Recent Developments in Corporate Governance -- 11. The Development and Performance of European Private Equity -- PART III FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- 12. Technology, Regulation, and the Geographical Scope of Banking -- 13. Asset Management in Europe -- 14. Pension Funds and the Evolution of Financial Markets in the European Union -- 15. Insurance and Reinsurance Companies -- 16. European Integration of Payments Systems -- PART IV FINANCIAL MARKETS -- 17. The Euro Money Markets -- 18. The European Bond Markets Under EMU -- 19. Equity Returns and Integration: Is Europe Changing? -- 20. Post-Trading Services and European Securities Markets -- 21. Derivative Markets -- 22. Structured Finance -- 23. Location and Competition Between Financial Centers -- PART V FINANCIAL REGULATION AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- 24. EU Securities Markets Regulation: Problems, Policies, and Processes -- 25. The Supervision of an Integrating European Banking Sector: Theory, Practice and Challenges -- 26. Bank Regulation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations -- 27. Financial Structure and Monetary Transmission in the EMU -- 28. Monetary Policy Implementation.

Reprint. Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.