Download or read book The Evolution of Nordic Finance written by Steffen Elkiær Andersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the birth and growth of financial institutions and stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Finland from 1656 to 2010, including their banking crises and the history of banking regulation. It argues that quantitative regulations cannot, in the long run, produce the desired results and bear the seeds of future financial crises.