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Currency Board Monetary System: The Case of British Honduras (1894-1976)

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  • Wessells, Preston

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

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We provide a historical summary, legislative history, and the first spreadsheet data series of the British Honduras Board of Commissioners of Currency (1894-1976) and examine to what extent it operated as a currency board using statistical tests. This paper makes the annual balance sheets of the currency board available in machine-readable form for the first time, in a companion spreadsheet workbook.

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  • Wessells, Preston, 2016. "Currency Board Monetary System: The Case of British Honduras (1894-1976)," Studies in Applied Economics 60, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
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    Keywords

    Belize; British Honduras; 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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