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

The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central … banks pooled interventions – sharing profits and losses – to stabilize the dollar price of gold. Why did it collapse? From …

gold and copper discoveries worldwide during 1950-2014. The study employs standard parametric and nonparametric duration …