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

Nikolaus Wolf ()

Explorations in Economic History, 2008, vol. 45, issue 4, pages 383-401

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Gold-exchange; standard; Interwar; period; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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