Discussion paper

DP6685 Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe?s Exit from Gold, January 1928- December 1936

The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that the decision of exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a quite limited set of factors commonly suggested in the theoretical literature on currency crises. A simple and parsimonious econometric framework that nests various hypotheses allows predicting the very month when a country will exit gold in the 1930s.

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Citation

Wolf, N (2008), ‘DP6685 Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe?s Exit from Gold, January 1928- December 1936‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6685. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp6685