Legal Update
Summary of Government Interventions in Financial Markets - Norway
September 2009
Mayer Brown Legal Update
The Norwegian government has maintained a policy of sustained involvement in financial markets following an economic crisis in the late 1980s – triggered by bad banking, weak market discipline and insufficient regulation. The mechanisms adopted by the Norwegian government to combat the 1980s recession have placed the economy in a better position to endure the current economic crisis than many other EU countries.