Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters are written by some of...

Foreword (Sabine Mauderer, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank) -- Introduction (Ursula Schipper, Jens Walter, Robert Kirchner) -- Part I: 100 Years Balance of Payments in Germany: The German Balance of Payments from an Analytical Perspective – Milestones Through History (Axel Jochem,...

Identifying exogenous variation in monetary policy is crucial for investigating central bank policy transmission. Using newly-collected archival real-time data utilized by the Central Bank Council of the German Bundesbank, we identify unexpected changes in German monetary policy from 580 policy...