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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Tác giả chính: Monnet, Eric
Tác giả khác: Puy, Damien
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/161
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF