Finance and the Welfare State

Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden, 1900–2015

Mats Larsson, Gabriel Söderberg

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319618500
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319618517
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Financial Services
• Index: Economics

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 warrants new understandings of the role of bank regulation. The book also analyses how shifts in bank regulations are usually part of more general policy shifts in society, which are in turn connected to both pragmatic and ideological considerations. In the case of Sweden the shift towards more  extensive bank regulations after World War II was closely related to the development of the welfare state. Such shifts in policy and regulations are generally international, and the book also explores how the Swedish national policy has interacted with international developments. 

Table of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Transition from the Classical Regime to the Statist Regime: 1900–1950
• 3 The Introduction of the Riksbank Regulation: 1950–1955
• 4 Tensions Mount in the Statist Regime: 1955–1960
• 5 International Turmoil and Regulatory Changes: 1960–1979
• 6 A New Regime Emerges: 1980–1995
• 7 Banking Development, the Global Financial Crisis and the Basel Regulations: 1995–2015
• 8 Finance and the Welfare State: What Have We Learned?
• Index