Do Old Habits Die Hard? Central Banks and the Bretton Woods Gold Puzzle
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  • Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Gold and the Bretton Woods System; The Gold Puzzle; Potential Motives for Gold Holding; III. Gold and Currency Under Bretton Woods; The Determinants of Reserves Holdings; Control Variables; Data Sources and Sample; Money rather than Trade; IV. Memory and Gold; Past Exposure to the Gold Standard; Personal Experience vs. Institutional Memory; V. Extensions and Robustness; Alternative Dependent Variables; Reverse Causality and Sterilization; VI. Implications: New Perspectives on the Bretton Woods system; VII. Conclusion; Data appendix; References; Tables
  • 1: Gold and Currency in Circulation2: Memory; 3: Personal Experience and Institutional Memory; 4: Determinants of Non-Gold Reserves and Share of Gold in Total Reserves; Figures; Figure 1: Gold and International Reserves, 1950-1971 (billions of US); Figure 2; Catching-up. The Evolution of cover ratios over time (1950-1970); Figure 3: Number of Years in the Gold Standard vs. Average Age of Central Banks'Governors; Figure 4: Currency-Gold Correlation (1950-1973)