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Gold has always been an investment instrument whose popularity is closely linked to economic and political instability. Since gold transactions occur in U.S. dollars any investor with a non-U.S. dollar base currency will therefore assume exchange risk exposure. Empirical evidence is given that the gold price has historically varied inversely with the strength of the U.S. dollar. The investor whose base currency is not the dollar, i.e. the Belgian franc or Dutch guilder, incurs less risk when investing in gold than his dollar counterpart.
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Beckers, S., Soenen, L.A. Gold options, an attractive investment instrument for the non-U.S. investor — the case of the Belgian and Dutch investor. De Economist 131, 80–87 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01676419
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01676419