Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world's largest central banks.

1. Introduction Rodney Evinsson, Tor Jacobson and Daniel Waldenstrom; 2. Central banks: evolution and innovation in historical perspective Michael D. Bordo and Pierre L. Siklos; 3. Sveriges Riksbank: 350 years in the making Klas Fregert; 4. The Bank of England, 1694-2017 C. A. E. Goodhart; 5. The Bank of Spain, 1782-2017. A history Pablo Martí n-Aceñ a; 6. The other way: a narrative history of the Bank of France Vincent Bignon and Marc Flandreau; 7. Four hundred years of central banking in the Netherlands, 1609-2016 Gerarda Westerhuis and Jan Luiten van Zanden; 8. Norges Bank 1816-2016. A history of a small independent central bank Oyvind Eitrheim and Jan Tore Klovland; 9. The Bank of Italy, a short history, 1893-1998 Gianni Toniolo; 10. A history of the Bank of Japan, 1882-2016 Masato Shizume; 11. The two eras of central banking in the United States Barry Eichengreen; 12. The struggle of German central banks to maintain price stability Jakob de Haan; 13. The People's Bank of China: from 1948 to 2016 Franklin Allen, Xian Gu and Jun Qian; 14. The European Central Bank Otmar Issing.