Why did the Bank of Canada Emerge in 1935?

Michael Bordo and Angela Redish

No 2079, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Three possible explanations for the emergence of the Canadian central bank in 1935 are examined: that it reflected the need of competitive banking systems for a lender of the last resort; that it was necessary to anchor the unregulated Canadian monetary system after the abandonment of the gold standard in 1929; and that it was a response to political rather than purely economic pressures. Evidence from a variety of sources (contemporary statements to a Royal Commission, the correspondence of chartered bankers, newspaper reports, academic writings and the estimation of time series econometric models) rejects the first two hypotheses and supports the third.

Date: 1986-11
Note: ME
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Published as Bordo, Michael D. and Angela Redish. "Why did the Bank of Canada Emerge in 1935?" Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLVII, No. 2, June 1987, pp. 405-4 17.

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