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| Title: | | Circulating interest-bearing currency: an Arkansas experiment, 1861 - 1863  |
| Authors: | | Burdekin, Richard C. K. Weidenmier, Marc D. |
| Editors: | | Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies 2003-04 |
| Abstract: | | During the Civil War the Arkansas legislature funded their expenditures primarily through interest-bearing warrants and war bonds. After these issues were made legal tender in November 1861, the discount attributed to them disappeared immediately and they began to circulate widely. By mid- 1862 they appeared to be preferred to Confederate notes - which were also made legal tender in November 1861 but required military intervention to support their acceptance. The widespread circulation and potential dominance of legal tender interest-bearing currency is consistent with legal restrictions theory. Confederate notes supplanted the Arkansas issues only after the legislature suspended interest payments in November 1862. |
| Subjects: | | Legal restrictions interest-bearing currency civil war |
| JEL: | | E42 N21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Claremont Colleges Working Papers in Economics, Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
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