Faria, João Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1358-1370
The purpose of this paper is to contribute a new model of the Gold Standard, focusing on the interaction between resource scarcity and demographics. In a dynamic micro-founded model we find that: i) prices and equilibrium gold holdings increase with population (a scale effect), but decrease with...