Scylla and Charybdis explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936

The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly suggest...

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1. Verfasser: Wolf, Nikolaus (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Munich Univ., Center for Economic Studies u.a. 2008
Schriftenreihe:CESifo working paper series Monetary policy and international finance 2271
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Zusammenfassung:The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly suggested in the theoretical literature on currency crises. A simple and parsimonious econometric framework that nests various hypotheses allows me to predict the month of exit in the 1930s, except for France. I consider the separate cases of France and Poland to show my results shed light on country-specific debates.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 33 - 40
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