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The Gold Standard Peripheries Anders OEgren

The Gold Standard Peripheries By Anders OEgren

The Gold Standard Peripheries by Anders OEgren


Summary

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small countries adjust to an international monetary regime with seemingly little room for policy autonomy?

The Gold Standard Peripheries Summary

The Gold Standard Peripheries: Monetary Policy, Adjustment and Flexibility in a Global Setting by Anders OEgren

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small countries adjust to an international monetary regime with seemingly little room for policy autonomy?

About Anders OEgren

ANDERS OEGREN 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 - Universite Paris Ouest and Lecturer at Institut d'Etudes 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 OKSENDAL 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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction - What is New from the Peripheries?; A.OEgren & L.F.OEksendal PART I: SCANDINAVIA Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Sweden During the Long Nineteenth Century; A.OEgren Freedom for Manouevre. The Gold Standard Experience of Norway, 1874-1914; L.F.OEksendal 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. Garcia-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.Martin-Acena, E.Martinez & P.Nogues-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.OEgren & L.F.OEksendal

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NLS9781349344598
9781349344598
1349344591
The Gold Standard Peripheries: Monetary Policy, Adjustment and Flexibility in a Global Setting by Anders OEgren
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Palgrave Macmillan
2012-01-01
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