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IntroductionLaure Quennouëlle-CorreThe Battle of the Bourses? Competition between Stock Exchanges in the Twentieth Century            Ranald MichieAn ‘Atypical’ Case? The First Emergence of Brussels as an International Financial Centre, 1830–1860            Stefano Ugolini3.      ‘Rivalry and Collaboration’: Relations between Buenos Aires Merchant Bankers and European Bankers in the Issue of Argentine Government Bonds in the 1880s            Carlos MarichalSt Petersburg Exchange: On the Road to Maturity.  Industrial Stock Index, 1897–1914  Leonid Borodkin and Gregory Perelman5.      London as the Global Market for Corporate Securities before 1914Leslie Hannah6.       Wall Street Transitions, 1880–1920: From National to World Financial Centre    Richard Sylla7.      The Decline of Paris as an International Financial Centre 1914–1940Laure Quennouëlle-Corre8.      The Banque de France, the Bank of England, and the Stabilization of the Romanian       Currency in the Late 1920sIleana Racianu9.      An Integrated European Market without an International Centre: 1945–1962?André Straus10.  The Re-emergence of Hong Kong as an International Financial centre in Asia, 1960–1978: Contested InternationalizationCatherine Schenk