| List of Tables and Figures | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. xiv |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xviii |
| The Case for the Peripheries | p. 1 |
| Silver or gold? | p. 3 |
| Managed or automatic? | p. 4 |
| The problem of adjustment and the 'rules of the game' | p. 5 |
| What made it successful? | p. 7 |
| What can we learn from the peripheries? | p. 8 |
| Scandinavia | |
| Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Sweden during the Long Nineteenth Century | p. 17 |
| The influence of the monetary policy of the Riksbank | p. 19 |
| Creating flexibility in a system of rigidity: the Riksbank's monetary policy | p. 23 |
| Conclusion | p. 33 |
| Freedom for Manoeuvre: The Norwegian Gold Standard Experience, 1874-1914 | p. 37 |
| Norway in the nineteenth century | p. 38 |
| Understanding the gold standard | p. 39 |
| Norwegian monetary policy constraints | p. 41 |
| Mapping the two phenomena | p. 45 |
| Mastering conflicting objectives | p. 48 |
| Conclusion | p. 54 |
| Price Stability in the Periphery during the International Gold Standard: Scandinavia | p. 58 |
| Overview | p. 59 |
| Data | p. 60 |
| Domestic price stability | p. 63 |
| Inflation persistence | p. 68 |
| Cross-border price stability | p. 71 |
| Conclusion | p. 78 |
| Monetary Policy in the Nordic Countries during the Classical Gold Standard Period: The Wicksellian View | p. 81 |
| Introduction | p. 81 |
| Economic and historical background | p. 82 |
| The model | p. 86 |
| Estimation | p. 91 |
| Results of the empirical analysis | p. 93 |
| Conclusion | p. 97 |
| Appendix | p. 98 |
| The European Continent | |
| Foreign Exchange Reserve Management in the Nineteenth Century: The National Bank of Belgium in the 1850s | p. 107 |
| Foreign exchange reserve management in the twenty-first century | p. 108 |
| Foreign exchange reserve management in the nineteenth century | p. 109 |
| Financial risk in nineteenth-century foreign reserve management: Belgium | p. 111 |
| Operational risk in nineteenth-century foreign reserve management: Belgium | p. 120 |
| Conclusion | p. 126 |
| Belgian Monetary Policy under the Gold Standard during the Interwar Period | p. 130 |
| The first Belgian attempts to restore the gold standard | p. 130 |
| The gold exchange standard under pressure | p. 136 |
| From a gold exchange standard to a gold bullion standard | p. 139 |
| The money supply in Belgium during the interwar period: an overview | p. 140 |
| Conclusion | p. 144 |
| Floating against the Tide: Spanish Monetary Policy, 1870-1931 | p. 145 |
| Capital mobility, fiscal deficits and the balance of payments | p. 147 |
| The monetary policy of the Bank of Spain during the classical gold standard, 1874-1913 | p. 150 |
| The Bank of Spain and the gold exchange standard, 1914-31 | p. 159 |
| Conclusion | p. 167 |
| Monetary Policy in Southeast Europe on the Road to the Gold Standard | p. 174 |
| Financial stability | p. 176 |
| Monetary autonomy and policy | p. 180 |
| Fiscal interference | p. 183 |
| Conclusion | p. 185 |
| Asia and South America | |
| Domestic Public Debt, Gold Standard and Civil Wars: Institutional Interconnections in Nineteenth-Century Colombia | p. 191 |
| Fiscal deficit and domestic public debt | p. 192 |
| Monetary impact | p. 195 |
| An impure gold standard | p. 197 |
| Other institutional impacts | p. 203 |
| Conclusion | p. 207 |
| The Japanese Economy during the Interwar Period: Instability in the Financial System and the Impact of the World Depression | p. 211 |
| Chronic financial crises and policy responses in the 1920s | p. 212 |
| Reforms in the banking system | p. 215 |
| Return to the gold standard and the Showa depression of 1930-31 | p. 218 |
| Conclusion | p. 227 |
| Lessons for the Future | |
| The Euro and the Gold Standard: What are the Lessons? | p. 231 |
| The gold standard in historical perspective | p. 231 |
| The Euro in historical perceptive | p. 234 |
| The future of the Euro | p. 241 |
| Notes | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 262 |
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