The origins and nature of Scandinavian central banking /
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| Language: | English |
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Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan studies in banking and financial institutions.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; Part I: The Nature of Central Banking; 1: Some General Remarks on "Central Banking"; 1.1 The Emerging Public Interest in "Central Banking"; 1.2 Some Preconditions for Having "Central Banks"; 2: Defining "Central Banks": Four Criteria; 2.1 From Chartered Banks to Central Banks; 2.2 The Four Criteria Defining Central Banks; 2.2.1 Criterion I: Being the Sole Note-Issuing Bank in the Country; 2.2.2 Criterion II: Being the Guardian of the Value of the Country's Currency; 2.2.3 Criterion III: Being the Bank for the Government.
- 2.2.4 Criterion IV: Being the Bank for the Country's Other Banks2.3 What Is Not Mentioned?; Part II: Before the Deluge. The Very Different Origins of Scandinavia's Central Banks, the Great War, and the Four Criteria; 3: Sveriges Riksbank, and the Four Criteria; 3.1 The Origins. Stockholms Banco (1656) and the Invention of Banknotes; 3.1.1 The Political Scenario; 3.1.2 Stockholms Banco, War Finance and the Invention of Banknotes (1656-1664); 3.2 Sveriges Riksbank (1668-1866-1914); 3.2.1 The Formation, Organization, and Operation of the Bank.
- 3.2.2 Sveriges Riksbank as an Issuer of Banknotes (Criterion I)3.2.3 Sveriges Riksbank as Guardian of the Currency (Criterion II); 3.2.4 Being the Banker for the Government (Criterion III); 3.2.5 Sveriges Riksbank as Bank for the Country's Other Banks (Criterion IV); 4: Danmarks Nationalbank and the Four Criteria; 4.1 The Origins. The Copenhagen Bank (1736-1813); 4.1.1 The Political Scenario; 4.1.2 The Copenhagen Bank (or the Kurantbank); 4.1.3 An Interlude. The Rigsbank, (1813-1815); 4.2 Nationalbanken i Kiøbenhavn (1818-1936); 4.2.1 The Scenario.
- 4.2.2 Nationalbanken as an Issuer of Banknotes (Criterion I)4.2.3 Nationalbanken as Guardian of the Currency (Criterion II); 4.2.4 The Nationalbank as Bank for the Government (Criterion III); 4.2.5 The Nationalbank as Bank for the Country's Other Banks (Criterion IV); 5: Norges Bank and the Four criteria; 5.1 The Political Scenario; 5.2 The Origins. The Formation of Norges Bank in 1816; 5.3 Norges Bank and the Four Criteria; 5.3.1 Norges Bank as a Note-Issuing Bank (Criterion I); 5.3.2 Norges Bank as Guardian of the Currency (Criterion II).
- 5.3.3 Norges Bank as Banker for the Government (Criterion III)5.3.4 Norges Bank as Bank for the Country's Other Banks (Criterion IV); 6: The Scandinavian Currency Union (1873-1914); 6.1 The Formation and Workings of the Scandinavian Currency Union; 6.2 Some Comparisons with the Latin Currency Union; 6.3 Some Comparisons with the Post-World War II Systems; 6.3.1 Some Comparisons with the Bretton Woods System; 6.3.2 Some Comparisons with the European Currency Union; 7: How the Great War Formed Scandinavian Central Banking.