The real exchange rate and fiscal policy during the gold standard period: evidence from the United States and Great Britain

Graciela Kaminsky () and Michael Klein

No 482, International Finance Discussion Papers from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We study the determinants of the dollar/pound real exchange rate from 1879 to 1914 focusing on the role of fiscal policy. We present a simple dynamic model of the real exchange rate to frame our analysis. The econometric results are based upon the decomposition of the sources of the innovation of the real exchange rate drawn from a structural vector autoregression model. We find little evidence that changes in tariffs and government spending affected the real exchange rate. There is some stronger empirical evidence that shocks to deficits were associated with the fluctuations in the real exchange rate.

Keywords: Foreign exchange rates - Great Britain; Gold standard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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