Norges bank 1816-2016 / Einar Lie [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lie, Einar, 1965- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking.

Norway.

Norges bank--History.

Norges bank.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development since the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars. This text traces its 200-year history, focusing on its relations with political institutions that have shaped and reshaped the bank's role since its establishment in 1816.

Contents:

1. A Bank of Issue Forged in Silver and Tears

2. A Bank with a Divided Mandate

3. A Relieved Norges Bank

4. Gold and Coins in the Age of Standardization

5. A Bankers' Bank

6. Blurring the Borders: The Bank During the First World War

7. The Pyrrhic Victories of the 1920s

8. The 1930s Crisis: Collapse and Zenith

9. Occupation and Loss of Autonomy

10. The Government's Bank

11. The Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Policy Up Until 1986

12. Downfall of the Regulatory System and Trumph of the Market

13. In Search of an Anchor

14. The Investment Manager

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-189238-6

0-19-260386-8

0-19-260387-6