The Floating Dollar in the Greenback Period: A Test of Theories of Exchange-Rate Determination

Lawrence Officer ()

The Journal of Economic History, 1981, vol. 41, issue 3, 629-650

Abstract: Some leading modern theories of exchange-rate determination are pitted against each other in explaining fundamental movements of the freely floating U.S. dollar in the foreign-exchange market during the greenback period, 1862–1878. A purchasing-power-parity theory augmented to incorporate interest-rate, and possibly income, effects provides the best explanation of the exchange rate. The standard works on the greenback period are subject to some amendments in light of the study.

Date: 1981
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