The Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States: World War II and the Korean War

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-40

  Ohanian, Lee E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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