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United Kingdom and Sweden under the Gold Standard: under stable monetary regimes with clearly defined nominal anchors …
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The emergence of the gold standard has for a long time been viewed as inevitable. Fluctuations of the gold … analyze agents' expectations between 1860 and 1890. The intuition is that the spread between gold and silver bonds issued by … requiring a premium to hold silver bonds indicating their belief that gold would eventually become the only metallic standard. …
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them to mutualise their gold reserves in emergency situations. Gold reserve sharing was especially important in response to … union. But fortunes could change quickly, with emergency recipients of gold turning into providers. Because regional …
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Currency debasement, defined as a loss of precious metal content (intrinsic value) of the circulating penny currencies over time, was a common feature in the monetary history of Europe, c. 1400–1900. Over the centuries the loss rate was sustained; between 1400 and 1900 A. D. the (south) German...
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, war die Einlösung ihrer Banknoten in Gold und damit implizit die Verteidigung der fixen Wechselkurse im Goldstandard … Währung geschaffen zusammen mit der Gründung der Deutschen Reichsbank im Jahre 1876. England folgend wurde der Goldstandard … etabliert mit dem Recht Banknoten in Gold zu tauschen und umgekehrt. Die Deckung der Banknoten wurde durch ein kompliziertes …
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What is the long-run relationship between monetary and fiscal policies? This paper provides an answer by examining a large set of data covering major economies during the past 115 years. The evidence suggests the existence of a close interaction between the monetary regime, that is the behaviour...
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utilising national gold reserves as collateral for government debt. Gold backing would be quite attractive to bond investors and …
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This paper examines the implications of segmented assets markets for the real and nominal effects of monetary policy. I develop a model, in which varieties of consumption bundles are purchased sequentially. Newly injected money thus disseminates slowly through the economy via second-round...
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This paper examines the role of monetary policy in an environment with aggregate risk and incomplete markets. In a two-period overlapping-generations model with aggregate uncertainty and nominal bonds, optimal monetary policy attains the ex-ante Pareto optimal allocation. This policy aims to...
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