Research library

This first edition of Gold Investor includes 4 papers: I. Q4 and full year 2012 gold investment commentary; II. Gold and currencies: hedging foreign-exchange risk; III. Gold and tail risk hedging: an international perspective IV. Gold and foreign-reserve diversification for emerging-markets central banks.

This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area in terms of reduced financing costs and bridge-financing. It is mindful of the legal issues that this will raise and that such a suggestion will be highly controversial. For this purpose…

Leading European think tank the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) analyses the impact on the gold market of various euro area economic scenarios.