world's main gold market during the period, the London Gold Fixing Auction. The paper highlights several novel features … time when gold was the centre of the world's monetary system. We find that the Gold Fixing price was informationally …This paper presents and explains the newly rediscovered and transcribed daily market gold price from 1919-1968 for the …

The Golden Constant is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries …-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a … thorough explanation of how the gold market evolved and how this is related to economic and political developments, from 1560 …

understood in connection to the Bank's role as gold market-maker in London and to the position of London as world gold market …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 …