Friday, March 7, 2014

Bimetallism

Bimetallism is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both to a certain quantity of gold and a certain quantity of silver. This system establishes a fixed rate of exchange between the two metals. The defining characteristics of bimetallism are (1) Both gold and silver money are legal tender in unlimited amounts. (2) Highly popular use of currency in the early 1900. (3) The government will convert both gold and silver into legal tender coins at a fixed rate for individuals in unlimited quantities. This is called free coinage because the quantity is unlimited, even if a fee is charged.

The combination of these conditions distinguish bimetallism from a limping standard, where both gold and silver are legal tender or trade money where both metals are freely coined but only one is legal tender and the other is trade money. Economists also distinguished the legal bimetallism, where the law guarantees these conditions, bimetallism where both gold and silver coins actually circulate at a fixed rate.

Bimetallism was intended to increase the supply of money, stabilize prices, and facilitate setting exchange rates. Some authors have argued that bimetallism was, by construction, unstable. Changes in gold-silver exchange were, in their eyes, leading to massive changes in the money supply. Bimetallism was thus inherently flawed and the advent of the gold standard was inevitable.

What is the difference between the monetary system under the system of the metal per system and the miners? Maybe you do not need to answer to many clarify it also appears from the name, is that the system that were identified in which the value of the monetary unit for the miners two are gold and silver, as the conditions required to maintain a fixed relationship between the value of the monetary union and the value of each of the miners are the same conditions that we have mentioned previously in connection with the metal per system, there is no need to re-talk about it in my opinion. It must be pointed out that the main factor in the stability of trading metals together is a continuation equivalent to the ratio between a value of market capitalization and the ratio between the worth of legal as currencies, but if differed These percentages, the metal that goes up its market value exceeds its legal tends to disappearing from circulation and eliminates the metal cheaper instead.

The rise in the market value of gold on the legal value will tempt the audience melting units gold (gold coins) and sold gold alloy market price high because the price weight better than their price in cash, so they can make a profit from this process, and here's critics say bimetallism that it ends with the disappearance of the metal good or metal top with a market value of trading, and thus turn the system to a system of metal miners one again, so it did not continue in the bimetallic system of life-consuming process, and also because the country that followed identified the different proportions of the two.

But which is calculated for this system that the use of silver metal along with gold metal in the monetary base increases the size of the base and the consequent to become the overall supply of money is greater under this system than in the case of a metal one, then it can be for the monetary authorities to carry out operations meet the needs of the public to cash in easy and efficient, and the use of two metals in the monetary base metal rather than one introduces some flexibility in the monetary system and then tend purchasing power of the monetary union, or the price level to a degree of relative stability than is available under the regime of the metal one.

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