Global equity markets experienced a significantly negative return of over 4.7 percent on June 24, 2016 in response to news of Britain's decision (BREXIT) to leave the European Union. Stock market indices for members of the European Union were hard hit with nearly all experiencing significantly...

We use the demise of silver-based standards in the 19th century to explore price dynamics when a commodity-based money ceases to function as a global unit of account. We develop a general equilibrium model of the global economy with gold and silver money. Calibration of the model shows that...