Consider the international currency experience for the period of the gold standard before 1914.
a. What type of exchange-rate system was the gold standard and how did it operate?
b. What country was central to the system? What was the role of this country in the success of the currency system?
c. What was the nature of economic shocks during this period?
d. What is the evidence on speculation and speculative pressures on exchange rates during this period?