Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94669 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Claremont Colleges Working Papers in Economics No. 1999-31
Publisher: 
Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics, Claremont, CA
Abstract: 
On April 1, 1864 the Confederate Currency Reform Act reduced the money supply in the Eastern Confederacy by one third. The delayed implementation of the reform west of the Mississippi provides a counterfactual view of what may have happened in the east had the reform not been enacted. This episode is a natural experiment illustrating the relative importance for prices of war news vs. the quantity of money in circulation. Our analysis of the major eastern and western gold markets, Richmond and Houston, strongly suggests that money matters more than war news in the post-reform period.
Subjects: 
Confederacy
currency reform
quantity theory
JEL: 
N20
N40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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