The classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But short-run price variability led critics of the gold standard to propose reforms that look much like modern versions of price path targeting. This paper uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to...

Which monetary regime is associated with the most stable price level? A commodity money regime such as the classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But critics of the day argued that the regime was associated with too much short-run price variability and...

Which monetary regime is associated with the most stable price level? A commodity money regime such as the classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But critics of the day argued that the regime was associated with too much short-run price variability and...

Aus den normativ gegebenen Zielen des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts, die den Sollzustand eines Wirtschaftssystems beschreiben, werden mit Hilfe der goldenen Regel der Kapitalakkumulation von Allais und der Eigenzinstheorie von Keynes notwendige Bedingungen an die Zinsstruktur einer...