The Evolution of Nordic Finance

摘要

Steffen E. Andersen takes on the vast and largely neglected task of systematically examining and comparing the development of organised capital and credit markets in the Nordic countries (excluding Iceland!): Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The book covers almost the entire financial history starting in the seventeenth century up to and including the financial crisis in 2007-9. The study, it is stated in the introduction, is organised around the development of regulations and institutions embedding finance as well as the contrasting perspectives of both providers and users of capital and credit in shaping the historical developments. Moreover, the development of Nordic finance is placed in a European context.