Revisiting the Rules-versus-Discretion Debate: Forecasting Evidence from the Bank of England, 1870-1913
重访规则与相机抉择之争:英格兰银行1870—1913年的预测证据
Under the classical gold standard, historians have long debated what guided the Bank of England's adjustments to Bank Rate: whether policy followed a mechanical gold-standard rule or discretion when City or exchange conditions required it, and whether domestic money-market stability or external convertibility carried greater weight. This paper revisits those questions with a London-specific monthly panel, 1870-1913, jointly testing ten domestic and external indicators the…