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Introduction : the research agenda and its intellectual setting / Håakan Lindgren -- Rivals and partners : reflections on banking and industry in Europe, 1880-1938 / Alice Teichova -- Financial change at a sector level : the interrelationships between banking and industry in Hungary during the 1920s / György Péteri -- Credits, and deposits to finance credits / P.L. Cottrell with C.J. Stone -- Bankers and families : the case of the Hungarian sugar industry / Ágnes Pogány -- The Austrian Workers' Bank : a financial institution for the community, or simply another profit-oriented institution? / Gertrude Enderle-Burcel -- Economic Anschluss and German Grossmachtpolitik : the take-over of the Austrian Credit-Anstalt in 1938 / Herbert Matis and Fritz Weber -- Government subsidy or internal restructuring? : Swedish commercial banks during the crisis years of the 1920s / Mats Larsson.

Popular views of the role of banks in Sweden during the 1920s and the early 1930s / Kristina Björkegren -- Swedish commercial banks : the distribution of their advances by economic sectors and geographical regions / Hans Sjögren -- Network analysis and interlocking directorships : inter-war Sweden / Jan Ottosson -- Bank advances and industrial production in the United Kingdom during the inter-wars years : a red herring? / Duncan M. Ross -- Bank-industry relations in inter-war Greece : the case of the National Bank of Greece / Margarita Dritsas -- Commentaries : bank-industry relations : the moving target : part one / Ulf Olsson. Part two / Sidney Pollard.