Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of regulation on previously unregulated banks’ balance-sheet growth using the 1880 Danish Savings Bank Act as a natural experiment. With the Act, Danish savings banks became, for the first time, subject to regulation and supervision...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of household leverage on consumption in Denmark during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Design/methodology/approach: A range of consumption functions are estimated on the basis of household-level data from the Expenditure and Saving...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of the so-called “small-sample problem” within quantitative exchange-rate risk management. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a closer look at the frequency distribution of nominal price changes in the European...

The paper presents input-output based time-series data for the underlying domestic inflation in Denmark 1903-2002 and analyses the inflationary development during the last century. More conceptual issues in relation to the interpretation and use of input-output based domestic inflation measures...

Purpose The 1950s was characterised by pronounced stability of the banking sector in many countries, which the existing literature has attributed to tight regulation. However, other factors than regulation are important for financial stability. The purpose of this paper is to consider the case...