The Gold Standard Peripheries

1. The Case for the Peripheries
Anders Ögren, Lars Fredrik Øksendal

Part I. Scandinavia

2. Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Sweden during the Long Nineteenth Century
Anders Ögren

3. Freedom for Manoeuvre: The Norwegian Gold Standard Experience, 1874–1914
Lars Fredrik Øksendal

4. Price Stability in the Periphery during the International Gold Standard: Scandinavia
Ola Honningdal Grytten, Arngrim Hunnes

5. Monetary Policy in the Nordic Countries during the Classical Gold Standard Period: The Wicksellian View
Concepciôn García-Iglesias, Juha Kilponen

Part II. The European Continent

6. Foreign Exchange Reserve Management in the Nineteenth Century: The National Bank of Belgium in the 1850s
Stefano Ugolini

7. Belgian Monetary Policy under the Gold Standard during the Interwar Period
Herman Wee

8. Floating against the Tide: Spanish Monetary Policy 1870–1931
Pablo Martín-Aceña, Elena Martínez-Ruiz, Pilar Nogues-Marco

9. Monetary Policy in Southeast Europe on the Road to the Gold Standard
Kalina Dimitrova, Luca Fantacci

Part III. Asia and South America

10. Domestic Public Debt, Gold Standard and Civil Wars: Institutional Interconnections in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Angela Rojas Rivera

11. The Japanese Economy during the Interwar Period: Instability in the Financial System and the Impact of the World Depression
Masato Shizume

Part IV. Lessons for the Future

12. The Euro and the Gold Standard: What are the Lessons?
Anders Ögren, Lars Fredrik Øksendal

Keywords: Business and Management, Business Finance, Financial History, Risk Management, Economic Policy, Banking, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics