SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance
No 537:
Lender of Last Resort in a Peripheral Economy with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Financial Crises and Monetary Policy in Sweden under the Silver and Gold Standards, 1834 – 1913
Anders Ögren ()
Abstract: According to the classical view, an economy’s lender of
last resort should be its central bank. For brief periods of time, the bank
might suspend convertibility in order to provide the liquidity needed to
support the domestic credit market. Recent experience of financial crises
demonstrates the conflict between maintaining a fixed exchange rate and
serving as a lender of last resort. The lesson of Sweden’s history of
crises under the classical specie standard is that a transitional, capital
importing economy has to pay closer attention to the specie standard rules
than do capital exporting economies. While the Swedish central bank, for a
limited time, could support the credit market within the limits of the
specie standard, if the crises persisted support mechanisms other than
abandoning convertibility were required. The solution adopted was to import
high powered money through loans guaranteed by the Swedish State.
Keywords: Classical silver and gold standards; Financial Crises; Fractional Reserves; Lender of Last Resort; Monetary Policy; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: E42; E58; N13; N23; (follow links to similar papers)
35 pages, October 2, 2003, Revised October 15, 2003
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