Open mouth operations: Financial coverage by threats and argument

Prof Lars Jonung of Lund College, on this fascinating paper discusses Swedish financial coverage within the Nineteen Eighties:

After World Battle II and previous to the monetary deregulation of the Nineteen Eighties, financial coverage in Sweden in addition to in different western European nations rested mainly on a system of far-reaching non-market-oriented controls of credit score flows and rates of interest. How was financial coverage performed in such an atmosphere of economic repression, the place the central financial institution was unable to depend on conventional financial coverage devices engaged on “free” and “unregulated” cash and capital markets? This research supplies a solution from the Swedish expertise. It is predicated on a singular set of confidential minutes from about 160 month-to-month conferences between the Riksbank and the business banks in the course of the years 1956-73.

The examination of the minutes demonstrates that financial coverage was framed in a course of involving threats and arguments in a small and closed membership involving the central financial institution and the chief executives of the business banks. In keeping with a joke assigned to Erik Lundberg, “open market operations had been changed by open mouth operations” – albeit the dialogue was stored inside the membership. When Swedish monetary markets had been deregulated within the Nineteen Eighties, the usual instruments of financial coverage quickly changed the conferences between the central financial institution and the business banks.

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