The Wealth Effect How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises PREFACE

Grants

Funding Acknowledgements

We are fortunate to have received research support from a number of sources. The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in funding the Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) is gratefully acknowledged (grant number ES/K002309/1). We thank Jon Danielsson and Jean-Pierre Zigrand, co-directors of the SRC, for their support of this project and for providing us with the resources to convene two workshops where we were able to present drafts of chapters and to receive valuable feedback. Ann Law, manager of the SRC, provided administrative support of the highest calibre. Our research also received financial support from Chwieroth's Mid-Career Fellowship from the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (MD130026), from Chwieroth's AXA Award from the AXA Research Fund, from Chwieroth and Walter's Discovery Project award from theAustralian Research Council (DP140101877), and from seed fund grants from the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and from the Melbourne School of Government. We also owe special thanks to John Haslam at Cambridge University Press, whose enthusiasm, constructive comments and, above all, patience did much to strengthen the quality of the manuscript.