The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 552, 2011, Pages 319-350

  Reinhart, Carmen M ^a   Rogoff, Kenneth S ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DEBT; INFLATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 79955910880     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02426.x     Document Type: Article

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