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The Burma Currency Board

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  • Alexandra Diehl

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

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We provide a spreadsheet data series and legislative history of the Burma Currency Board (BCB) from 1948 to 1952. The paper assesses the level of orthodoxy exhibited by the board through analysis of legislation and statistics from quarterly bulletins. We also do a comparative analysis of economic health during and after the currency board era through use of economic markers. This paper makes various balance sheet data available in machine-readable form in a companion spreadsheet workbook.

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  • Alexandra Diehl, 2017. "The Burma Currency Board," Studies in Applied Economics 72, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:jhisae:0072
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    2. Charles Weintraub & Kurt Schuler, 2013. "India’s Paper Currency Department (1862-1935) as a Quasi Currency Board," Studies in Applied Economics 9, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
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    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East

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