Today, pure economic loss is probably one of the main problems in expanding tort law. In some countries, it is associated with uncontrollable and unforeseeable floods of claims to which there may be no end. In this book, leading authors shed light on the subject. An attempt is made to include a possible road towards a common European denominator on compensation for pure economic loss. The perspectives presented in this book are manifold. Contributions on the following topics are included: pure economic loss under specific national legal systems and from several comparative law perspectives, legal and economic analyses, tortious liability of banks and auditors, and an outlook on further developments INDICE Pure Economic Loss: A Comparative Perspective (Willem H. van Boom).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss under French Law (Christophe Radé/Laurent Bloch).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss under Italian Law (Alessio Zaccaria).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss under Japanese Law (Kunihiko Okubo).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss under Spanish Law (Miquel Martín Casals/Jordi Ribot).- The Liability of Banks (Susanne Kalss).- Auditors' Liability (W.V. Horton Rogers).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss from a Common Lawyer's Perspective (Christian Witting).- Compensation for Pure Economic Loss from a Continental Lawyer's Perspective (Helmut Koziol).- Pure Economic Loss and Liability Insurance (Christian Lahnstein).- The Economics of Pure Economic Loss and the Internalisation of Multiple Externalities (Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci).- Outlook (Willem H. van Boom/Helmut Koziol/Christian Witting).