The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing: From Gold Standard to hoarded commodity (1919-68)
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Keywords
Daily Gold Price Data; London Market; Market Efficiency; Gold Fixing; Hoarding;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
- N2 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions
- Q3 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2023-12-11 (Banking)
- NEP-HIS-2023-12-11 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MON-2023-12-11 (Monetary Economics)
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