Publications

Central banking in times of change

A compilation of speeches delivered in the OeNB’s 200th anniversary year

• Central banking in times of change (PDF, 5.1 MB)

Montary Policy & the Economy Q3-4: Two Hundred Years of Central Banking in Austria: Selected Topics

Editor: Oesterreichische Nationalbank

• Montary Policy & the Economy Q3-4: Two Hundred Years of Central Banking in Austria: Selected Topics (PDF, 3.3 MB)

Memories of a Central Bank. Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Since 1816

On June 1, 1816, Emperor Francis I signed the “privilegirte oesterreichische National-Bankˮ into existence – which makes today’s Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) one of the oldest central banks in the world. Along with the world itself, the Nationalbank has undergone profound changes since its founding days and formative years. Its initial role, that of financing government spending as the treasury’s banker, is now outlawed under EU law whereas central bank independence has been enshrined in law, to enable the Nationalbank to ensure stable prices and sound financial markets.

In those 200 years, Austria’s national currency changed five times—from the florin to the crown to the schilling to the reichsmark and back to the schilling and most recently to the euro, which Austria now shares with 18 other European countries.

Largely drawing on previously unpublished material from the OeNB’s archives, this book chronicles the memories of the Nationalbank with descriptive visuals and engaging vignettes of workaday life at the central bank, thus bringing to life 200 eventful years of Austrian history.

Release date January 2016
Christian Brandstätter Verlag
 

• Excerpt (PDF, 345 kB)

The Quest for Stable Money. Central banking in Austria 1816–2016

Release date January 2016
Campus Verlag

• Excerpt (PDF, 259 kB)