Professor Hanke served as an adviser to Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, from 1997 to 2002. In 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board System, based on Professor Hanke's draft Currency Board Law, which he authored at the request of President Stoyanov. The Currency Board brought an end to...

This chapter supplies, for the first time, a table that contains all 56 episodes of hyperinflation, including several which had previously gone unreported. The Hyperinflation Table is compiled in a systematic and uniform way. Most importantly, it meets the replicability test. It utilizes clean...