With a bang, not a whimper: Pricking Germany's "stock market bubble" in 1927 and the slide into depression

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-99

  Voth, Hans Joachim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; STOCK MARKET; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

GERMANY;

EID: 0037985396     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050703001736     Document Type: Article

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