Publications

Working Papers:

• Norges Bank 1999-2010: Governance and structural reforms, Harald Bøhn (2012/16)
• The Bank of England as the world gold market-maker during the classical gold standard era, 1889-1910, Stefano Ugolini (2012/15)
• From a fixed exchange rate regime to inflation targeting, Christoffer Kleivset (2012/13)
• Why do banking crises occur? The American subprime crisis compared with the Norwegian banking crisis 1987-92, Sverre Knutsen (2012/03)
• Central banks under German rule during World War II: The case of Norway, Harald Espeli (2012/02)
• Financial crises and monetary expansion , Ola Honningdal Grytten (2011/21)
• Independence within Government. A comparative perspective on central banking in Norway 1945-1970, Christian Venneslan, Ragnar Trøite, Christoffer Kleivset and Bastian Klunde (2011/20)
• What do we really know about the long-term evolution of central banking? Evidence from the past, insights for the present , by Stefano Ugolini (2011/15)
• Where it all began: lending of last resort and the Bank of England during the Overend-Gurney panic of 1866, by Marc Flandreau and Stefano Ugolini (2011/03)
• The promise and performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort 1914-1933, by Michael D. Bordo and David C. Wheelock. (2011/01)
• Letting the anchor go: Monetary policy in neutral Norway during World War I, by Monica Værholm and Lars Fredrik Øksendal, (2010/28) (Work in progress)
• The international monetary system, 1844-1870: Arbitrage, efficiency, liquidity by Stefano Ugolini (2010/23)
• The origins of foreign exchange policy: The National Bank of Belgium and the quest for monetary independence in the 1850s by Stefano Ugolini (2010/22)
• Universal banking and the development of secondary corporate debt markets: Lessons from 1830s Belgium by Stefano Ugolini (2010/21)
• The origins of a paper money economy - the case of Norway, by Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2009/25)
• Bagehot for beginners: The making of lending of last resort operations in the mid-19th century by Vincent Bignon, Marc Flandreau and Stefano Ugolini (2009/22)
• The historical connection between short term output and prices in a small open economy by Ola Grytten and Arngrim Hunnes (2009/21)
• Price stability and inflation persistence during the international gold standard: The Scandinavian case by Ola Grytten and Arngrim Hunnes (2009/20)
• Bank regulation and bank crisis by Sigbjørn Atle Berg and Øyvind Eitrheim (2009/18)
• Monetary policy under the gold standard - examining the case of Norway, 1893-1914 by Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2008/14)

Staff Memo:

• Norges Bank 1999-2010. Styring og omstillinger, Harald Bøhn (31/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Fra fast valutakurs til inflasjonsmål, Christoffer Kleivset (30/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Fra regulering til marked, Et dokumentasjonsnotat om Norges Bank og utviklingen av penge-, kreditt- og valutapolitikken 1965-1990, Thomas Nordbø Berg, Harald Bøhn and Christoffer Kleivset (27/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Knuten på perlekjedet. Securitas-aksjonen og Norges Bank 1925-1928, Eivind Thomassen (26/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Norges Banks distrikstavdelinger 1983-2001 , Harald Bøhn, (24/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Clearingen i Norges Bank, Harald Haare (22/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Da Norge forlot gullet: Norges Bank og kurspolitikken 1931–1933, Tine Petersen (9/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• ”til Christiania for at søge Forlindring i de store Tyngsler”: Bondetogene på Østlandet og bøndenes motstand mot skattepolitikken i 1818, Sonja Serina Finstad Johansson (3/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Rettslige sider ved utlåns- og diskonteringsvirksomheten til Norges Bank 1816–1824, Eugenia Blücher (1/2012) (In Norwegian only)
• Norges Banks uavhengighet i etterkrigstida En analyse av sentralbankens uavhengighet fra 1945 til 1970 i et komparativt perspektiv, Ragnar Trøite (22/2011) (In Norwegian only)
• Inflasjon og akkomodasjon : Norsk valutakurspolitikk fra 1971 til 1986, Christoffer Kleivset (21/2011) (In Norwegian only)
• Fra reell til nominell : En analyse av pengepolitikken i Norge fra devalueringen i 1986, til innføringen av inflasjonsmålet i 2001, Bastian Engelsen Klunde (20/2011)
• Mellom politikk og marked? En studie av Pengepolitisk avdeling i Norges Bank, IMF og spørsmålet om den norske penge- og kredittpolitikken ca. 1965-1980, Thomas Nordbø Berg (19/2011) (In Norwegian only)
• Når staten tar kontroll : Bankkrisen fra 1991 - 1993,  Trond Gram (18/2011) (In Norwegian only)
• Kredittpolitikken som redskap i den samfunnsøkonomiske styringen fra 1965 til 1980, Gunhild J. Ecklund (17/2011) (In Norwegian only)
• Noregs Bank. Grunntrekk i administrasjon, oppgåver og historie av Egil Borlaug og Turid Wammer (9/2009) (In Norwegian only)
• Trondhjem som hovedsete for Norges Bank – noen faktiske og kontrafaktiske betraktninger by Lars Fredrik Øksendal (8/2008) (In Norwegian only)

Norges Banks skriftserie / Occasional Papers:

• Utviklingen av det norske betalingssystemet i perioden 1945-2010, med særlig vekt på Norges Banks rolle, Harald Haare og Jon A. Solheim (44, 2011) (In Norwegian only)
• What is a useful central bank? Proceedings from Norges Bank’s symposium 17-18 November 2010, Sigbjørn A. Berg, Øyvind Eitrheim, Jan F. Qvigstad og Marius Ryel (red.) (42, 2010)
• Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway – Part II, Øyvind Eitrheim, Jan T. Klovland og Jan F. Qvigstad (red.) (38, 2001)
• Tilbakeblikk på norsk pengehistorie. Konferanse 7. juni 2005 på Bogstad gård, Øyvind Eitrheim og Jan F. Qvigstad (red.) (37, 2005) (In Norwegian only)
• Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway 1819-2003, Øyvind Eitrheim, Jan T. Klovland og Jan F. Qvigstad (red.) (35, 2004)
• Frå fot til feste – Norsk valutarett og valutapolitikk 1873-2001, Viking Mestad (30, 2002) (In Norwegian only)

Other publications:

Stefano Ugolini (2012), “Bagehot for beginners: The making of lending of last resort operations in the Mid-19th Century” (with Vincent Bignon and Marc Flandreau), Economic History Review, forthcoming (also available as Norges Bank Working Paper 2009/22).

Stefano Ugolini (2012), Where it all began: Lending of last resort and the Bank of England during the Overend-Gurney Panic of 1866 (with Marc Flandreau), in Michael D. Bordo and William Roberds (eds.), A return to Jekyll Island: The origins, history, and future of the Federal Reserve, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (also available as CEPR Discussion Paper 8362 and Norges Bank Working Paper 2011/3).

Stefano Ugolini (2012), The origins of foreign exchange policy: The National Bank of Belgium and the quest for monetary independence in the 1850s, European Review of Economic History, 16:1, 2012, pp. 51-73 (also available as Norges Bank Working Paper 2010/22).

Stefano Ugolini (2012), Foreign exchange reserve management in the 19th century: The National Bank of Belgium in the 1850s, in Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (eds.), The gold standard peripheries: Monetary policy, adjustment and flexibility in a global setting, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 107-29 (also available as Norges Bank Working Paper 2011/7).

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2012), “Freedom for manoeuvre - the gold standard experience of Norway, 1874-1914”, chapter 3 in Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (eds.) ”The gold standard peripheries: Monetary policy, adjustment and flexibility in a global setting” Palgrave Macmillan

Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2012) “The Euro and the gold standard: What are the lessons?” (with Anders Ögren), chapter 12 in Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (eds.), The gold standard peripheries: Monetary policy, adjustment and flexibility in a global setting” Palgrave Macmillan

Harald Espeli (2011), ”Norges Bank, Administrasjonsrådet og etableringen av okkupasjonskontoen i 1940”, Historisk Tidsskrift, Bind 90, s. 559–584. (In Norwegian only)

Jan Tore Klovland (2011),”A great hundred years of timber freights, 1757-1876”’, Research in Maritime History, bind 46, s. 1-29.

Stefano Ugolini (2011), An ‘atypical’ case? The first emergence of Brussels as an international financial centre 1830-1860, in Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis (eds.), Financial centres and international capital flows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 47-70.

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2011), “Dividend policy i Norwegian banking before 1914”, Financial History Review 2/2011

Ola Mestad, ”Noregs Bank som aksjeselskap i 1816 – selskapsrettsleg forankring av stabilt pengevesen” i «Selskap, kontrakt, konkurs og rettskilder: festskrift til Mads Henry Andenæs 70 år» av Woxholth, Normann og Knudsen (red.) Gyldendal, Oslo (2010) (In Norwegian only)

Monica Værholm and Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2010), “Leaving the anchor: Monetary policy in neutral Norway during the First World War”, The International History Review, 4/2010.

Jan Tore Klovland (2009),”New evidence on the causes of the fluctuations in ocean freight rates in the 1850s”’, Explorations in Economic History, bind 46, s. 266-284.

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2009), "Bank rate policy in Norway, 1893-1914", Scandinavian Economic History Review, 3/2009

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2009), "Re-examining Norwegian monetary policy in the 1930s" in Olsson, Sven-Olof (ed.) Managing crises and de-globalisation, Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2009 pp 66-81.

Jan Tore Klovland (2008),”The construction of ocean freight rate indices for the mid-nineteenth century”’, International Journal of Maritime History, bind 20, s. 1-26.

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2008), "In search of a greater economic entity: The Sterling Area episode of the early 1950s reconsidered", Contemporary European History 4/2008

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2007), "The impact of the Scandinavian Monetary Union on financial market integration", Financial History Review (2/2007)

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (2007), "Multilateralism and domestic policy in the early 1950s: explaining the case of Norwegian ambiguity", Review of international political economy (14:4 October 2007)