Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119409 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper Series No. 515
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Expectations of Sterling returning to Gold have been disregarded in empirical work on the US dollar - Sterling exchange rate in the early 1920s. We incorporate such considerations in a PPP model of the exchange rate, letting the probability of a return to gold follow a logistic function. We draw several conclusions: (i) the PPP model works well from spring 1919 to spring 1925; (ii) wholesale prices outperform consumer prices; (iii) allowing for a return to gold leads to a higher speed of adjustment of the exchange rate to PPP; (iv) interest rate differentials and the relative monetary base are crucial determinants of the expected return to gold; (v) the probability of a return to Gold peaked at about 72% in late 1924 and but fell to about 60% in early 1925; and (vi) our preferred model does not support the Keynes' view that Sterling was overvalued after the return to gold.
Subjects: 
Gold Standard
Sterling
exchange rate
PPP
expectations
JEL: 
E5
F31
N1
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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