Finance and the Welfare State Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden, 1900–2015 /

• Main Authors: Larsson, Mats (Author), Söderberg, Gabriel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Subjects: Finance.; Finance, Public.; Banks and banking.; Finance > History.; Financial History.; Banking.; Public Finance.

This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015. It puts the experiences of the past in the context of today’s debate on the future of banking, and argues that the experiences of the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2007 warr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The transition from the Classical Regime to the Statist Regime: 1900-1950
• Chapter 3: The introduction of the Riksbank regulation: 1950-1955
• Chapter 4: Tensions mount in the Statist Regime: 1955-1960
• Chapter 5: International turmoil and regulatory changes: 1960-1979
• Chapter 6. A new regime emerges: 1980-1995
• Chapter 7: Banking development, the global financial crisis and the Basel regulations: 1995-2015
• Chapter 8: Finance and the welfare state: what have we learned?