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Prices and the Quantity of Circulating Medium, 1890–1921

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An attempt to find a method for forecasting price changes develops important theoretical conclusions. — The quantity theory of money furnishes a basis for an hypothesis (229), a test of which requires an index number of general price level, an index number of total circulating medium, and an index number of the normal value of V/T, 234. — The reciprocal of the latter is an index of the circulating medium necessary to maintain a constant price level, 239. — From the index number of circulating medium and the index number of the normal value of V is calculated an index number of normal price level, 000. — This index number compared with the index number of actual price level, 1890–1916, shows a good correlation with a lag apparently slightly less than one year, 242; which substantiates the original hypothesis, as applied to that period, 245. — The hypothesis, however, does not explain the price changes of 1917–20, 246. — Some related conclusions, 248.— Supplementary note, 252. — Appendix: Construction of the index number of circulating medium, 253.

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  • Holbrook Working, 1923. "Prices and the Quantity of Circulating Medium, 1890–1921," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 37(2), pages 228-256.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:37:y:1923:i:2:p:228-256.
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    5. Peter Kugler & Samuel Reynard, 2022. "Money and inflation in Switzerland," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Springer;Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, vol. 158(1), pages 1-13, December.

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