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Author:   Anders Ögren ,  Lars Fredrik Øksendal
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9780230343177

ISBN 10:   0230343171
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   16 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Contributors Introduction – What is New from the Peripheries?; A.Ögren & L.F.Öksendal PART I: SCANDINAVIA Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Sweden During the Long Nineteenth Century; A.Ögren Freedom for Manouevre. The Gold Standard Experience of Norway, 1874-1914; L.F.Öksendal Price Stability in the Periphery During the International Gold Standard: The Scandinavian Case; O.Honningdal Grytten & A. Hunnes Monetary Policy in the Nordic Countries during the Classical Gold Standard Period – The Wicksellian View Conception; C. García-Iglesias & J.Kilponen PART II: THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT The Origins of Foreign Exchange Policy: The National Bank of Belgium; S.Ugolini Belgian Monetary Policy under the Gold Standard during the Interwar Period; H.Van der Wee Central Banking under the Gold Standard: The Bank of Spain, 1870-1930; P.Martín-Aceña, E.Martínez & P.Nogués-Marco Monetary Policy in Southeast Europe on the Road to the Gold Standard; K.Dimitrova & L.Fantacci PART III: ASIA AND SOUTH-AMERICA Domestic Public Debt, Gold Standard and Civil Wars: Institutional Interconnections in 19th Century Colombia; A.M.Rojas Rivera The Japanese Economy during the Interwar Period: Instability in the Financial System and the Impact of the World Depression; M.Shizume PART IV: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE The Euro and the Gold: What are the Lessons? A.Ögren & L.F.Öksendal

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ANDERS ÖGREN is Associate Professor at UCBH - Department of Economic History, Uppsala University and EHFF - Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He is also Associated Researcher at EconomiX – Université Paris Ouest and Lecturer at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). His most recent publications are Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871 – 1971 (Eds. with Patrice Baubeau) and The Swedish Financial Revolution (Ed.). He has also published in international refereed journals such as Business History, Explorations in Economic History and Financial History Review. LARS FREDRIK ØKSENDAL is Assistant Professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway and is currently involved in Norges Bank's bicentenary project 1816-2016. He has published extensively on Norwegian monetary and financial history in journals such as Financial History Review, International History Review, Contemporary European History and the Review of International Political Economy.

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