Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard, 1879-1913

Eugene Canjels, Gauri Prakash-Canjels and Alan M. Taylor ()

No 10583, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A major question in the literature on the classical gold standard concerns the efficiency of international arbitrage. Authors have examined efficiency by looking at the spread of the gold points, gold point violations, the flow of gold, or by tests of various asset market criteria, including speculative efficiency and interest arbitrage. These studies have suffered from many limitations, both methodological and empirical. We offer a new methodology for measuring market integration based on nonlinear theoretical models and threshold autoregressions. We also compile a new, high-frequency series of continuous daily data from 1879 to 1913. We can derive reasonable econometric estimates of the implied gold points and price dynamics. The changes in these measures over time provide an insight into the evolution of market integration.

JEL-codes: N1 F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-fin, nep-his and nep-ifn
Date: 2004-06
Note: DAE IFM
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10583.pdf (application/pdf)
Access to the full text is generally limited to series subscribers, however if the top level domain of the client browser is in a developing country or transition economy free access is provided. More information about subscriptions and free access is available at http://www.nber.org/wwphelp.html.

Related works:
Working Paper: Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard 1874-1913 (2004)
Journal Article: Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard, 1879-1913 (2004)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:10583

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10583
The price is Paper copy available by mail.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Address: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by ().