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Are gold bugs coherent?

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  • Brian Lucey
  • Fergal O’connor

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We use wavelet models to surface the relationship between gold miners stock prices and the price of gold. We find that there is little relationship in the short run but some significant and long-standing long-run relationships. Gold prices appear to lead gold miner stock prices.

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  • Brian Lucey & Fergal O’connor, 2017. "Are gold bugs coherent?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 90-94, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:24:y:2017:i:2:p:90-94
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1164813
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