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The Tongan Board of Commissioners of Currency (1935-1989): Not an Orthodox Currency Board

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  • Little, Cameron

    (The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise)

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This paper provides a historicalsummary, legislative history, and the first spreadsheet data series of the Tonga Board of Commissioners of Currency (1935-1989) and uses statistical tests to examine to what extent it operated as an orthodox currency board.

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  • Little, Cameron, 2017. "The Tongan Board of Commissioners of Currency (1935-1989): Not an Orthodox Currency Board," Studies in Applied Economics 89, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
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    Keywords

    Tonga; currency board;

    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • N17 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Africa; Oceania

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