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The Case for Gold Revisited: A Safe Haven Or A Hedge ?

Emerging Markets Journal

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Title The Case for Gold Revisited: A Safe Haven Or A Hedge ?
 
Creator Apak, Sudi
Akman, Vedat
Çankaya, Serkan
Sonmezer, Sıtkı
 
Description This paper attempts to analyze the relation among gold prices and other macroeconomic and financial variables and addresses the question whether gold is a safe haven or a hedge for investors. The study investigates the relationship by using an econometric analysis for top gold exporter and importer countries, for a sample period of 11 years from 2000 to 2011. The results are twofold (i) return of silver, USD returns and change in the volatility index influences gold returns positively whereas, Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar returns influence gold returns negatively regardless of presence of the 2008 crisis. (ii) In times of stress, our findings indicate that Swiss Franc, Norwegian Krone and Canadian Dollar function as haven whereas, on average, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar and 10 year US treasuries function as a hedge against gold but the results show no evidence for the US dollar.  
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Contributor Exchange rates, Gold, Hedge, Safe Haven, GARCH
 
Date 2012-09-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://emaj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/emaj/article/view/28
10.5195/emaj.2012.28
 
Source EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal; Vol 2, No 2 (2012); 1-8
2158-8708
2159-242X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://emaj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/emaj/article/view/28/122