کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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985768 | 934672 | 2011 | 11 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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Gold traditionally has been used as a store of value and an inflation hedge. More recently, gold is also viewed as a hedge against uncertainty and a safe haven. This paper demonstrates that many properties regularly associated with gold are only valid in a simple regression framework but significantly change in a multiple regression framework. A descriptive and econometric analysis of gold and US economic and financial variables for monthly data from 1979 to 2011 shows that gold primarily serves as a hedge against a weaker US dollar and against higher commodity prices. In contrast, gold is not a hedge against consumer price inflation. The empirical results also indicate that gold only recently evolved as a safe haven asset.
► “Mining for explanations” of gold price changes leads to spurious results.
► Common notion of gold as a hedge against inflation does not hold.
► Consumer price inflation is insignificant in multiple regression.
► Gold primarily serves as a hedge against a weaker US dollar.
► Gold only recently became a safe haven asset against financial market shocks.
Journal: Resources Policy - Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 265–275