The Swedish Financial Revolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Swedish Financial Revolution: An In-Depth Study

   • Anders Ögren

   Pages 1-13

3. The Early Modern Financial System and the Informal Credit Market

   • Klas Nyberg

   Pages 14-40

4. The Deposit Market Revolution in Sweden

   • Kristina Lilja

   Pages 41-63

5. Cooperation, Interbank Markets and Bank-Industry Networks: The Growth and Characteristics of Swedish Bank Lending, 1860–1910

   • Tom Petersson

   Pages 64-78

6. The Modernization of the National Bank of Sweden: The Riksbank

   • Anders Ögren

   Pages 79-94

7. The Evolution of Secondary Financial Markets, 1820–1920

   • Håkan Lindgren

   Pages 95-112

8. Market Integration 1830–1890

   • Håkan Lobell

   Pages 113-127

9. Incorporation and Financial Modernization

   • Oskar Broberg

   Pages 128-144

10. The Swedish Financial Revolution and the Insurance Industry

    • Mikael Lönnborg, Mikael Olsson

    Pages 145-169

11. The State and the Financial System: Regulation and Regime Change around 1900

    • Mats Larsson

    Pages 170-182

12. Why do Banking Crises Occur? An Evolutionary Model of Swedish Banking Crises

    • Hans Sjögren, Sverre Knutsen

    Pages 183-203

13. What we can Learn from the Swedish Financial Revolution: An International Comparison

    • Anders Ögren, Richard Sylla

    Pages 204-223

14. Back Matter

    Pages 225-230

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How did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? This book discusses the role of politics and economics in this change and what it means for economic development, market integration and financial crises.

• bank
• economic development
• growth
• history
• revolution
• banking

• EHFF — The Institute for Research in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

  Anders Ögren

• Institute d’Études Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), France

  Anders Ögren

• Université de Paris Ouest (Nanterre), France

  Anders Ögren

• UCBH — Uppsala Center for Business History, Uppsala University, Sweden

  Anders Ögren

ANDERS ÖGREN is Assistant Professor at EHFF – The Institute for Research in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and Lecturer at Institute d'Études Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), France. He is also Associated Researcher at both EconomiX, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France, and UCBH – Uppsala Center for Business History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Ögren's main research fields are financial and monetary history, and history of economic thought on which he has published in edited collections and several international journals.

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