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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מחבר ראשי: Monnet, Eric
מחברים אחרים: Puy, Damien
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/161
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF