The Soviet Union has good prospects of becoming the dominant supplier of gold in the world, for its own mining reserves …

This paper describes the structure of the world gold market, its sources of supply and demand, and how it functions …. The paper examines the composition and origin of physical stocks of gold, their flows, and their market destination and … also reviews the operation of bullion and paper gold markets …

The perception about gold in India has come a long way from the days when its main function was to merely adorn and act … realizing that gold deserves a place not just in the cupboard at home or the bank locker, but also in their investment portfolio …. Gold purchases in India accounted for 32 per cent of the global total in 2010. However, in the near term, gold consumption …

This paper studies the microfoundations of the so-called "gold device" policy by analysing a new dataset on the Bank of … England's operations in the gold market at the heyday of the classical gold standard. It explains that "gold devices" must be … understood in connection to the Bank's role as gold market-maker in London and to the position of London as world gold market …

The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central … banks pooled interventions – sharing profits and losses – to stabilize the dollar price of gold. Why did it collapse? From …

gold and copper discoveries worldwide during 1950-2014. The study employs standard parametric and nonparametric duration …