Finance intermediaries and economic development This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe Canada and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal Stephen Quinn Paris Bourse 1724 1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene N. White No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris Philip T. Hoffman Gilles Postel Vinay Jean Laurent Rosenthal II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy Angela Redish Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans 1871 1913 John B. Legler Richard Sylla Transition from building and loan to savings and loan 1890 1940 Kenneth A. Snowden III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology 1870 1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux Kenneth L. Sokoloff Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital Dianne Newell Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development 1928 1939 Robert C. Allen Was adherence to the gold standard a good housekeeping seal of approval during the interwar period Michael Bordo Michael Edelstein Hugh Rockoff