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I study whether monetary gold hoarding was the main cause of the Great Depression in a structural VAR analysis. The … monetary disturbances as shocks to central bank gold demand. Based on a monetary DSGE model, the world gold reserve ratio (the … ratio of central bank gold holdings to monetary liabilities) is used to describe monetary conditions. This permits the use …
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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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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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The problems posed by monetary policy cannot be dealt with by legislating enduring policy rules. With the passage of time, economic understanding does not systematically converge ever more closely on a "true" model of the economy, a process which is now sufficiently far along that our current...
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The Gold Commission, whose 17 members were appointed by President Reagan in June 1981, has been conferring since autumn … last year. The task of this commission is to discuss the pros and cons of restoring some gold backing for the dollar and to … study the role of gold in the international economy. Prof. Zippel analyses whether an international gold standard would at …
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In the past four to five decades, inflation has fallen around the world, with median annual global consumer price inflation down from a peak of 16.6 percent in 1974 to 2.6 percent in 2017. This decline began in advanced economies in the mid-1980s and in emerging market and developing economies...
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