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Gold investment as an inflationary hedge: cointegration evidence with allowance for endogenous structural breaks

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  • Andrew C. Worthington
  • Mosayeb Pahlavani

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This note tests for the presence of a stable long-run relationship between the price of gold and inflation in the United States from 1945 to 2006 and from 1973 to 2006. Since both the gold market and the inflationary regime have been subjected to structural change over time, a novel unit root testing procedure is employed which allows for the timing of significant breaks to be estimated, rather than assumed exogenous. After taking these breaks into account, a modified cointegration approach provides strong evidence of a cointegrating relationship between gold and inflation in the post-war period and since the early 1970s. The results lend support to the widely held view that direct and indirect gold investment can serve as an effective inflationary hedge.

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  • Andrew C. Worthington & Mosayeb Pahlavani, 2007. "Gold investment as an inflationary hedge: cointegration evidence with allowance for endogenous structural breaks," Applied Financial Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(4), pages 259-262.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raflxx:v:3:y:2007:i:4:p:259-262
    DOI: 10.1080/17446540601118301
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    1. Refk Selmi, 2023. "Do investors care about carbon risk? The impact of the Paris agreement on the inflation hedging performance of commodities," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 43(2), pages 1111-1121.
    2. Al-Nassar, Nassar S. & Boubaker, Sabri & Chaibi, Anis & Makram, Beljid, 2023. "In search of hedges and safe havens during the COVID─19 pandemic: Gold versus Bitcoin, oil, and oil uncertainty," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 318-332.
    3. N.S. Al-Nassar & Sabri Boubaker & A. Chaibi & B. Makram, 2023. "In Search of Hedges and Safe Havens during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gold versus Bitcoin, Oil, and Oil Uncertainty," Post-Print hal-04435437, HAL.

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