The stability of the interwar gold exchange standard: Did politics matter?

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 151-181

  Wandschneider, Kirsten ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; INFLATION; MODELING; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 40349102364     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050708000053     Document Type: Article

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