Arbeitspapier
Buried in the vaults of central banks: Monetary gold hoarding and the slide into the Great Depression
I study whether monetary gold hoarding was the main cause of the Great Depression in a structural VAR analysis. The notion that monetary forces played an important role in bringing about the depression is well established in the narrative literature, but has more recently met some skepticism by formal macroeconometric work. In deliberate contrast to the existing macroeconometric literature, the paper i) uses a newly-assembled monthly data set of the interwar world economy, and ii) models monetary disturbances as shocks to central bank gold demand. Based on a monetary DSGE model, the world gold reserve ratio (the ratio of central bank gold holdings to monetary liabilities) is used to describe monetary conditions. This permits the use of narrative information to sharpen shock identification in a structural VAR analysis based on sign restrictions. Monetary shocks are found to have real effects and to account for a substantial part of the collapse in prices and output during the initial slide into the Great Depression.
- ISBN
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978-3-95729-799-0
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 63/2020
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Central Banks and Their Policies
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: 1913-
- Thema
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Great Depression
Gold Standard
Monetary Policy
Narrative Sign Restrictions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Karau, Sören
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Deutsche Bundesbank
- (wo)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Karau, Sören
- Deutsche Bundesbank
Entstanden
- 2020
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