Between the dollar-sterling gold points
Subtitle: exchange rates, parity, and market behavior
By: Lawrence H. Officer.
Series: Studies in monetary and financial history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Gold standard -- History.; Foreign exchange rates -- United States -- History.; Foreign exchange rates -- Great Britain -- History.; Money -- United States -- History.; Money -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: This book studies the dollar-sterling exchange rate from 1791 to 1931. Gold standards are examined from the perspective of the precise location of the exchange rate. Professor Officer begins with a historical perspective of the monetary standards of the United States and Britain, following which he develops new data on exchange rates, mint parity, and gold points.

The book presents and examines new data on the exchange rate and related variables, and will serve as a dollar-sterling handbook for those interested in this important aspect of international monetary history. In its presentation of theories and results centred on the precise location of the exchange rate, the book breaks new ground in our understanding of the gold standard.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-325) and index.