Inflation, État et opinion en France de 1944 à 1952

Chélini, Michel-Pierre

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“…All prices were legally frozen from 1939, with only a few exemptions. A powerful administration (7,000 civil servants in 1943) issued 2 million procès-verbaux or statements (with strong financial penalties) in the period 1940–50 (Chélini 1998). At that time, people fled the franc for real assets, whose prices could increase freely in nominal value.…”

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Wars, inflation and stock market returns in France, 1870–1945

Bris¹

2012

Financial History Review

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This article undertakes a comparative study of the effects of three wars upon the French stock market. Periods of war are highly turbulent financial times and trigger multiple factors to act upon stock prices. The article presents evidence suggesting that stock price behaviour is influenced by the specific way each war is financed. Financed solely by regular long-term debt, the Franco-Prussian War exhibited stock prices that only reflected real activity. On the other hand, both world wars were partially financed by monetary creation but differed with regard to the extent of financial repression. In the case of World War II, monetary creation within a closed repressed economy led to a paradoxical, short-lived increase in stock prices. The article also examines how war affected the characteristics of the market. The Franco-Prussian War caused a durable high interest rate; World War I smoothed out most of the public services firms and increased volatility; whilst World War II affected the components of the stock market. Overall, mainly due to market values being destroyed during the world wars, the importance of the stock market in the economy decreased.

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confidence: 99%