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The Currency Boards of Trinidad (1906-1951) and Barbados (1938-1951)

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  • Sah, Sidharth

    (The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise)

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We provide the first spreadsheet data series and legislative history of note issue by the Commissioners of Currency, in Trinidad, and the Board of Commissioners of Currency, in Barbados. The paper assesses how orthodox the operations of these two currency boards were, analyzing both the legislation and statistics from their balance sheets. The two boards’ operations are compared in their structure and level of orthodoxy. There is also some limited discussion of the effects of the boards on the colonies’ economies. The paper makes the various balance sheet data available in machine-readable form for the first time, in a companion spreadsheet workbook.

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  • Sah, Sidharth, 2016. "The Currency Boards of Trinidad (1906-1951) and Barbados (1938-1951)," Studies in Applied Economics 49, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:jhisae:0049
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    Keywords

    Trinidad and Tobago; Barbados; currency board;
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    JEL classification:

    • E59 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Other
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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