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In reaction to the monetary turmoil created by the financial crisis of September 2008, both legislative and constitutional reforms have been proposed in different Countries to introduce Commodity Money longside existing National Fiat Currency. A thorough evaluation of the Economic consequences of these new proposals is warranted. This paper surveys some of the existing knowledge in Monetary and Financial Economics for the purpose of answering the significant Economic questions raised by these new political initiatives.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics - University of Zurich in its series ECON - Working Papers with number 024.

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Keywords: Currency competition; commodity money; fiat money; gold; safe haven; search models;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

• E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
• E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2011-09-16 (All new papers)
• NEP-CBA-2011-09-16 (Central Banking)
• NEP-MAC-2011-09-16 (Macroeconomics)
• NEP-MON-2011-09-16 (Monetary Economics)

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1. About a (partial) return to the gold standard
   by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2011-10-04 14:22:00

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