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Theories Of Gold Price Movements: Common Wisdom Or Myths?, Fan Fei, Kelechi Adibe
Theories Of Gold Price Movements: Common Wisdom Or Myths?, Fan Fei, Kelechi Adibe
Undergraduate Economic Review
This paper examines several of the explanations commonly provided regarding gold and its price movements. We consider the safe haven, inflation hedge, and dollar destruction hypotheses. The results are mixed. Our data does not support the theories that gold is a safe haven or an inflation hedge. We find that gold is a zero-beta asset and there is a strong negative correlation between gold and the value of the US dollar in the post Bretton-Woods era. The decomposition of gold prices under a semi-structural model finds the aggregate demand shock, monetary policy shock, and precautionary demand shock of gold all …