Four-volume historical work on the NBB in the period 1940-1971
24 November 2005 17:00
The National Bank has published a comprehensive study of the period from 1940 to 1971 in four volumes. You can download digital versions of these volumes below.
- I. Herman Van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt (KU Leuven)
Oorlog en monetaire politiek: de Nationale Bank van België, de Emissiebank te Brussel en de Belgische regering, 1939-1945
(War and monetary policy: the National Bank of Belgium, the Bank of Issue in Brussels and the Belgian government from 1939 to 1945)
Language: Dutch. Summary in French | Full text
- II. René Brion (ULB) and Jean-Louis Moreau (UCL)
La politique monétaire belge dans une Europe en reconstruction (1944-1958)
(Belgian monetary policy in a Europe undergoing reconstruction)
Language: French. Summary in French | Full text
- III. Walter Pluym and Olivier Boehme (NBB)
Van de golden sixties tot de val van Bretton Woods (1959-1971)
(From the golden sixties to the collapse of Bretton Woods)
Language: Dutch. Summary in French | Full text
- IV. Isabelle Cassiers and Philippe Ledent (UCL)
Politique monétaire et croissance économique en Belgique à l'ère de Bretton Woods (1944-1971)
(Monetary policy and economic growth in Belgium in the Bretton Woods era)
Language: French. Summary in French | Full text