Wealth bias in the first global capital market boom, 1870-1913

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 495, 2004, Pages 304-337

  Clemens, Michael A ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey G ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; CAPITAL MARKET; ECONOMIC HISTORY; INVESTMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1942520205     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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