Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67842 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1256
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Daily data on spot and forward dollar/sterling exchange rates and on Britain's foreign exchange reserves are used to reassess the financial history of the 1956 Suez crisis. We find that support of sterling at its Bretton Woods lower bound lost credibility as early as July. Reserve losses also are consistent with an exchange rate crisis. We provide the first econometric study of foreign exchange market intervention in the pre-convertibility phase of the Bretton Woods system. The Bank of England's interventions reacted strongly both to official sterling and to the transferable sterling market in New York, which suggests that convertibility was a central goal of policy.
Subjects: 
Suez crisis
Bretton Woods system
foreign exchange market intervention
JEL: 
F31
N24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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