Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31442 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Claremont Colleges Working Papers No. 2003-04
Publisher: 
Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics, Claremont, CA
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

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