Four-volume historical work on the NBB in the period 1940-1971

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