1 Reflections on the Evolution of Financial Crises: Theory, History and Empirics (Michael D. Bordo).- 2 The international contagion of short-run interest rates during the Great Depression(Samuel Maveyraud and Antoine Parent).- 3 Banking Crises and Lender of Last Resort in Theory and Practice in Swedish History, 1850 - 2010 (Anders Ögren).- 4 It is Always the Shadow Banks: The Regulatory Status of the Banks that Failed and Ignited America's Greatest Financial Panics (Hugh Rockoff).- 5 Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz on the Inherent Instability of Fractional Reserve Banking (Hugh Rockoff).- 6 Financial Crises and the Central Bank: Lessons from Japan during the 1920s (Masato Shizume).- 7 The Economic and Social Backgrounds of Top Executives of the Federal Reserve Before and After the Great Depression (Isao Suto).