Hyperinflation year mixups for Peru, Poland, Serbia, Soviet Union, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia
Posted: 18 January 2012 07:39 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Table 8.1 on page 165 has some erroneous (and missing) years for hyperinflation:

Peru 1921/24
Poland 1989/90 188%/month
Poland 1992/94 77%/month
Serbia 1922/24
Soviet Union 1945/49
Taiwan 1995
Tajikistan 1993/96
Turkmenistan 1992/94
Ukraine 1990
Yugoslavia <no year>

These prove to be errors in transcription from Bernholz’s book Monetary Regimes and Inflation where you can see the same data in table 2.1 on page 8 showing this information:

Peru 1988/90
Poland 1921/24 188%/month (rounded off)
Poland 1989/90 77%/month (rounded off)
Serbia 1992/94
Soviet Union 1922/24
Taiwan 1945/49
Tajikistan 1995
Turkmenistan 1993/96
Ukraine 1992/94
Yugoslavia 1990

This is from the 2003 edition on Google Books, not the 2006 book referenced in Table 8.1.

Will there be an errata page on the web for this book? People have asked about it elsewhere on this forum and I’ve stumbled across other things that don’t seem quite right.

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