A pioneer of a new monetary policy? Sweden's price-level targeting of the 1930s revisited

European Review of Economic History

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-282

  Straumann, Tobias ^a   Woitek, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 75049085135     PISSN: 13614916     EISSN: 14740044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1361491609002494     Document Type: Article

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