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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Главный автор: Monnet, Eric
Другие авторы: Puy, Damien
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/161
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF