Do Old Habits Die Hard? : Central Banks and the Bretton Woods Gold Puzzle /

Why did monetary authorities hold large gold reserves under Bretton Woods (1944-1971) when only the US had to? We argue that gold holdings were driven by institutional memory and persistent habits of central bankers. Countries continued to back currency in circulation with gold reserves, following r...

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Hlavní autor: Monnet, Eric
Další autoři: Puy, Damien
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/161
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF