Premium
Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s: An Extension to Asia
Author(s) -
Ting ChienJung,
Ho TaiKuang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.12135
Subject(s) - depreciation (economics) , currency , latin americans , china , great depression , depression (economics) , exchange rate , east asia , economics , development economics , economy , geography , political science , economic growth , monetary economics , macroeconomics , archaeology , financial capital , law , capital formation , human capital
Scholars have found a positive relationship between the magnitude of currency depreciation and the extent of recovery from the Great Depression for Europe and Latin America. The relationship between currency depreciation and economic activity during the Great Depression for Asian economies has not yet been explored. This paper examines this topic using data from 13 Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. We find that Asian economies responded in a similar way to currency depreciation during the Great Depression as did European and Latin American countries.