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When available financial securities allow investors to optimally diversify risk across countries, standard theory implies that exchange rates should reflect this behavior. However, exchange rates observed in the data deviate from these predictions. In this paper, we develop a framework to value...
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relative price of gold, as well as any time series obtained by differencing a finite number of times, is nonstationary. The … the log of the relative price of gold is stationary, a finding that is inconsistent with the existence of rational bubbles … of gold and the time series properties of real interest rates,which the theory relates to the time series properties of …
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known price and one asset, gold, with a random rice in terms of the numeraire. Under these assumptions, it is found that the … portfolio in U.S. dollars. Because of the covariance of exchange rates and gold, the exclusion of the latter generates …
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The paper is a study of the price level and relative price effects of a policy to monetize gold and fix its price at a … gold standard and during the post-monetization period. The paper also explores the adjustments to fiat money which are … necessary to ensure that this type of gold monetization is non-inflationary. Finally, some conditions which produce a run on the …
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Traditional theory implies that the relative price of consumer goods and of such real assets as land and gold should … different from the predictions of this theory: the prices of land, gold, and other such stores of value have increased by …
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The gold standard was a key factor behind the Great Depression, but why did it produce such an intense worldwide … initiated the downturn, France increased its share of world gold reserves from 7 percent to 27 percent between 1927 and 1932 and … effectively sterilized most of this accumulation. This "gold hoarding" created an artificial shortage of reserves and put other …
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We describe in this essay why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these …
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We compare the resumption of convertibility into gold by the United States in 1879 and Britain in 1925 to ascertain the …
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reflected systematically in the price of gold and, hence, that gold price movements, under the maintained hypothesis, should … of gold prices on exchange rates conditional on other monetary and real macroeconomic variables, and applies the … resulting error correction exchange rate equation to out-of-sample forecasting exercises …
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In this paper we examine the evidence for two competing views of how monetary and financial disturbances influenced the real economy during the national banking era, 1880-1914. According to the monetarist view, monetary disturbances affected the real economy through changes on the liability side...
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