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Contents
- 1. Origins and function of banking
- 2. Financial intermediation
- 3. Securitized banking
- 4. The central bank and the conduct of monetary policy
- 5. Regulation and supervision of the banking industry
- 6. Origins of the global financial crisis
- 7. The global financial crisis and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis
- 8. Policy and regulatory responses to the global financial crisis
