#  Data for The Curse of Cash 

 



**This page contains links to ORIGINAL data for figures and tables in** ***The Curse of Cash*****, by Kenneth Rogoff (Princeton University Press, 2016), and also data UPDATED through 2016 for the paperback edition,** ***The Curse of Cash: How Large-Denomination Bills Facilitate Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy*** **(Princeton University Press, 2017). Source notes and links are contained in the files.**

**Preface** (No data)

**Chapter 1** (No data)

**Chapter 2**  
[Figure 2.1: Paper money printing and rice price in the Yuan dynasty](/file_url/671)  
Table 2.1: Selected peak debasement years for European coinage, 1300–1812 (See source notes in book.)

**Chapter 3**  
[Figure 3.1: US currency/GDP, 1948–2015](/file_url/672) [(Updated data 1948-2018)](/file_url/845)  
[Figure 3.2: Euro currency/GDP, 1995-2015](/file_url/673) [(Updated data 1995-2018)](/file_url/846)  
[Figure 3.3: Japanese currency/GDP, 1953-2015](/file_url/847) [(Updated data 1953-2018)](/file_url/847)  
[Figure 3.4: Currency-to-GDP ratio, 2015](/file_url/675) [(Updated data, 2018) ](/file_url/848)  
[Figure 3.5: Share of largest banknote in total currency supply](/file_url/676)  
[Figure 3.6: Local currency per capita in US dollars, 2015](/file_url/677) [(Updated data, 2018)](/file_url/849)  
[Figure 3.7: Foreign holdings of US currency (in billions of dollars)](/file_url/703)  
[Figure 3.8: Currency to GDP in 1995, advanced economies](/file_url/678)  
[Table 3.1: Proportion of large notes in circulation, by country](/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/rogoff/files/curse_table_3.1_proportion_of_large_notes.xlsx)

**Chapter 4**  
[Figure 4.1: Payments by instrument type](/file_url/857) (July 2020 Update)  
[Figure 4.2: Payments per dollar amount per consumer](/file_url/858) (July 2020 Update)  
Table 4.1: Average cash balances in wallet (See source notes in book.)   
Table 4.2: Percentage of respondents always (or often) using cash for different kinds of purchases, by country (See source notes in book.)

**Chapter 5**  
[Figure 5.1: Underground economy as percentage of official GDP](/file_url/681)  
Table 5.1: Restrictions on the use of cash in the Eurozone (See source notes in book.)

**Chapter 6**   
[Figure 6.1: Seigniorage revenue/GDP, 2006–2015 average](/file_url/682) [(Updated data, 2018)](/file_url/850)

**Chapter 7**  
[Figure 7.1: Sweden: Banknotes and coins in circulation (billion kronor)](/file_url/683) [(Updated data, 2018)](/file_url/851)  
[Figure 7.2: Declining total demand for large notes in Sweden (value in billion kronor)](/file_url/684) [(Updated data, 2018)](/file_url/852)

**Chapter 8**  
[Figure 8.1: UK policy rate, 1930–present](/file_url/689) [(Updated data, 2019) ](/file_url/853)  
[Figure 8.2: New York Federal Reserve discount rate, 1929–1939](/file_url/687)  
[Figure 8.3: US and UK market rates, 1929– 1939](/file_url/686)  
[Figure 8.4: 2000-2015 Policy interest rates for the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and the Bank of England](/file_url/685)  
[Figure 8.5: Ten-year treasury inflation-indexed security, constant maturity](/file_url/688) [(Updated data, 2019) ](/file_url/854)  
Table 8.1: Central bank discount rate cuts in response to two crises (See source notes in book.)

**Chapter 9** (No data)

**Chapter 10** (No data)

**Chapter 11** (No data)

**Chapter 12**  
Table 12.1: Cumulative change in the currency's value versus the US dollar, January 1970–December 2001 (See source notes in book.)

**Chapter 13** (No data)

**Chapter 14**  
[Figure 14.1: Market price of bitcoins (US dollars) ](/file_url/691) [(Updated data, 2019)](/file_url/855)  
[Figure 14.2: Real gold price (US dollars) ](/file_url/690) [(Updated data, 2018)](/file_url/856)

**Final Thoughts** (No data)

**Appendix** (No data)

**Corrections**   
[Minor corrections to text of first printing of the 2017 paperback version (fixed in later printings)](/file_url/750)



 

 ### The Curse of Cash, updated paperback edition, 2017

 

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 ### The Curse of Cash, first edition, 2016

 

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