The New York Money Market and the Finance of Trade, 1900–1913

by Charles A.E. Goodhart

In the United States during the early years of the twentieth century, there were considerable seasonal variations in the balance of trade, primarily caused by the annual agricultural cycle. This intensive examination of the New York money market during the period demonstrates that the frequent fluctuations in monetary conditions were caused by these variations in the trade flows rather than by capital movements by banks. Some of the criticism of the structure of the banking system by contemporary economists, which encouraged the adoption of the Federal Reserve System, is shown to have been misplaced.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Prof. Charles Albert Eric Goodhart, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1963; B.A., Cambridge University, 1960, CBE, FBA is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics. Before joining the London School of Economics in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980.

During 1986, Prof. Goodhart helped to found, with Prof. Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics, which began its operation at the start of 1987. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000.

Taken from here.