Macroeconomic crises since 1870

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue SPRING, 2008, Pages 255-335

  Barro, Robert J ^a   Ursúa, José F ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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