How successful was Germany's first common currency? A new look at the imperial monetary union of 1559
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Keywords
currency unions; early modern monetary policies; Gresham's Law;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2022-05-30 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2022-05-30 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2022-05-30 (Monetary Economics)
- NEP-PAY-2022-05-30 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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