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The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of financial regulation on the Spanish banking system performance from the end of the Civil War (April 1939) to the mid-1970s. The changes in the banking regulatory framework - the pre-war situation, the period of strongest financial restriction in Spain between 1939-1962, and the reform efforts between 1962 and 1975 - offer an instructive case study.

Banking regulation has been the subject of intense debate in recent years. This book contributes to that debate in its study of the impact of financial regulation on Spanish banking performance, especially profitability, from the end of the Spanish Civil War to the end of the Franco regime. Maria Pons discusses the Francoist authorities' policy of forced industrialization based on heavy industry, and the huge interventionist apparatus that it set up to involve banks in its industrialistic programme. This included several items of banking legislation related to the fixing of interest rates,...