to the Great Depression? How did countries balance the externals demands of the gold standard with domestic policy … estimate central bank rate reaction functions for a panel of 22 countries during the inter-war gold standard. The estimates …

The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based … on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a …

devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on commodity-price movements from the classical gold standard era, we then show …

constructed by exploiting variations in the price of gold around events that capture periods of changes in uncertainty. The … variations in the price of gold around the events correlate with the underlying uncertainty shocks, due to the perception of gold …

price of gold coin is an important factor in cost-benefit analysis for individuals in their marriage and divorce decisions … in Iran. Dowries (Mehrieh) are usually in the form of gold coin and a wife has a legal right to them upon both parties … signing the marriage contract. Increasing the price of gold coin may intensify the internal stress and struggles within …

ceases to function as a global unit of account. We develop a general equilibrium model of the global economy with gold and … suggests that a global bimetallic system, in which the gold price of silver uctuates, has higher price volatility than a global …