Mikael Wendschlag
Researcher at Department of Economic History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 31
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 553 63 23
- E-mail:
- Mikael.Wendschlag@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Researcher at Department of Economic History; Uppsala Centre for Business History
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 553 63 23
- E-mail:
- Mikael.Wendschlag@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75120 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
Research
My research is generally focused on financial history, especially on supervision and regulation, financial and banking crises, central banking and economic crime.

Publications
Recent publications
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate
Part of Business History, p. 1381-1399, 2025
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Part of Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance, p. 240-256, Routledge, 2022
- DOI for Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation?: Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the early 1970s
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Formalization of banking supervision: 19th-20th Centuries
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
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Den svenska finanstillsynens uppdrag och organisering ur ett historiskt perspektiv
Part of Finansiell reglering och tillsyn, Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
The Swedish 1907-1908 banking crisis and old and new crisis management policies
2019
All publications
Articles in journal
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate
Part of Business History, p. 1381-1399, 2025
- DOI for Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate
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The Formalization of Banking Supervision in Japan and Sweden
Part of Social Science Japan Journal, p. 211-228, 2019
Books
Chapters in book
Part of Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance, p. 240-256, Routledge, 2022
- DOI for Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation?: Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the early 1970s
- Download full text (pdf) of Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation?: Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the early 1970s
Den svenska finanstillsynens uppdrag och organisering ur ett historiskt perspektiv
Part of Finansiell reglering och tillsyn, Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
Finanstillsynens utveckling i Sverige från mitten av 1800-talet fram till 1990-talskrisen
Part of Ett liv som handledare. Mats Larsson 65 år, Uppsala universitet, 2018
Central bankers in twelve countries between 1950 and 2000: the making of a global elite
Part of Financial Elites and European Banking, Oxford University Press, 2017
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
The Swedish 1907-1908 banking crisis and old and new crisis management policies
2019
The ‘regime context’ of banking supervisors’ competence – the Swedish case
2015
Explaining the formalization of banking supervision – An international comparison
2015
Central bank elites 1950-2000 – a comparative exploration
2013
2012
Drivers of organisational change of Swedish bank supervision between 1868-1991
2011
Measuring competence and effectiveness of the Swedish Bank Inspection Board 1910-1990
2011
Rigid regulation, dynamic markets and adaptive enforcement
2010
Reports
Other
Part of Financial History Review, p. 103-106, 2014
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – A History of the Early Years 1974–1997
Part of Scandinavian Economic History Review, p. 203-205, 2013
Part of Scandinavian Economic History Review, p. 296-298, 2009