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The inter–war gold exchange standard: Credibility and monetary independence

Michael D. Bordo, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 1, pp 1-32
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In this paper, the authors analyzed the operation of the interwar gold exchange standard to see if the evident credibility of the system conferred on participating central banks the ability to pursue independent monetary policies.
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This article is published in Journal of International Money and Finance.The article was published on 2003-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interest rate parity & Covered interest arbitrage.

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Does gold offer a better protection against losses in sovereign debt bonds than other metals

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The Stability of the Interwar Gold Exchange Standard: Did Politics Matter?

TL;DR: This article proposed a discrete time duration model (using a panel data set of 24 countries for 1928-1936) to analyze how economic and political indicators affected a country's term on the gold standard.
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Central Bank Credibility: An Historical and Quantitative Exploration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries, focusing on measures of inflation expectations, the mean reversion properties of inflation, and indicators of exchange rate risk.
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Misspecification tests in econometrics

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