Financial innovations and crises: The view backwards from northern rock

The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-31

  Atack, Jeremy ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80052458287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511757419.002     Document Type: Chapter

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