The spread of empire: Clio and the measurement of colonial borrowing costs

Economic History Review

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-407

  Accominotti, Olivier ^a   Flandreau, Marc ^b   Rezzik, Riad ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC HISTORY; IMPERIALISM; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

CLIO;

EID: 79954480335     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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