This book shows how deregulation is transforming the size, structure, and geographic range of U.S. banks, the scope of banking services, and the nature of bank-customer relationships. Over the past two decades the characteristics that had made American banks different from other banks throughout the world--a fragmented geographical structure of the industry, which restricted the scale of banks and their ability to compete with one another, and strict limits on the kinds of products and services commercial banks could offer--virtually have been eliminated. Understanding the origins and persistence of the unique banking regulations that defined U.S. banking for over a century lends an important perspective on the economic and political causes and consequences of the current process of deregulation.
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Regulation, industrial structure, and instability in U.S. banking: an historical perspective; 2. The origins of banking panics: models, facts, and bank regulation with Gary Gorton; 3. The origins of federal deposit insurance with Eugene N. White; 4. The costs of rejecting universal banking: American finance in the German mirror; 5. The evolution of market structure, information, and spreads in American investment banking with Daniel M. G. Raff; 6. Universal banking, 'American style'; Indexes.
