Israel, Karl‐Friedrich - In: The World Economy 44 (2021) 6, pp. 1701-1719
relatively high costs. In fact, their operating expenses exceed the estimated costs of a generic fractional-reserve gold standard …. Even when the reserve ratio of the estimated gold standard is increased up to 100% on M1, the operating expenses of these …. Their annual operating expenses as a fraction of nominal GDP are more than twice as high as those of the Federal Reserve …