Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96041 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009-06
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
Paper money, when discretionally issued by a government, can be a very powerful political and economic tool. Who invented it and who caused its global diffusion? Scholars are quick to claim the precedence of their home countries without justifying their claims or contesting competing claims. I comprehensively examine the monetary and public nature of the candidate currencies and the transmission of information about paper currency inventions between countries and across time. I conclude that it was invented independently a few times and its global diffusion began in Canada in 1685.
Subjects: 
government-issued money
card money
paper money
JEL: 
E42
N11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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