Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis sejauh mana emas dapat berfungsi sebagai alat hedging yang sempurna untuk mengatasi dampak buruk terjadinya inflasi pada suatu Negara. Hal ini dilihat dari pengaruh expected dan unexpected inflasi terhadap return emas. Hasilnya ternyata hanya unexpected atau unanticipated inflation yang memiliki pengaruh terhadar return emas, berbeda dengan Vietnam dimana expected dan unexpected memiliki pengaruh yang sama-sama kuat terhadap return harga emas di Negara tersebut.

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This study aims to analyze the extent to which gold can serve as a perfect hedging instrument to address the adverse effects of inflation on a State. It is seen from the influence of expected and unexpected inflation to return the gold. The result was just unexpected or unanticipated inflation which has the effect to gold returns, in contrast to Vietnam where expected and unexpected influence equally strong against the return of the gold price in the country. This is largely determined by economic and political conditions in each of these countries.