1st Edition

A Monetary History of the United Kingdom, 1870-1982 Volume I. Data, Sources, Methods

By Forrest Capie Copyright 1985
    624 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1985. This book is the first of two volumes and is the culmination of a major research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom. This volume contains monetary series ranging from detailed balance sheet material to monetary aggregates such as M3 and are in monthly, quarterly and annual form. The data are drawn mostly from primary sources in the early part of the period and from more accessible published sources for more recent years. Critiques of existing series are given and assessments of the value of different sources are provided. The user should be able to build his/her own series from the basic constituents given here. This source and assessment of data should be an essential reference to economic historians and applied economists with an interest in the British economy over the last one hundred years. But it will also be of interest and use to the students of money and banking and to monetary economists of other countries.

    PART ONE MONETARY AGGREGATES AND PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS 1 The Monetary Base 2 Money Supply Measures, Ml, M2, Sterling M3 and M3 3 The Money Supply and its Proximate Determinants 4 Data for Money Supply and its Proximate Determinants, 1870-1921 and 1921-82, 5 Alternative Estimates of Money Supply Data, 1870-1982 PART TWO COMPONENTSOFTHE MONETARY AGGREGATES AND MONETARY MEASURES 6 The Components PART THREE MONEY ANDBANKINGDATASERIES 7 Coin in Circulation, 1868-1982 8 United Kingdom Bank Notes 9 The Bank of England Banking Department - Certain Liabilities and Assets 10 The United Kingdom Banking Sector: Structure and Statistics, 1870-1982 11 United Kingdom Bank Deposits, 1870-1982 12 UK Banks' Cash and Balances at the Bank of England, 1870-1982 13 UK Banks' Inter-Bank Deposits and Items in Transit and Collection, 1870-1969 14 Interest Rates and the Money Market 15 Non-Monetary Series

    Biography

    Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History in the Centre for Banking and International Finance at City University. Alan Webber is Course Director of the Financial Markets Programmes at City University. Both authors have published extensively on economics and economic history.