Still tied by golden fetters: The global response to the US recession of 1937-1938 1

Financial History Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-48

  Urban, Scott ^a   Straumann, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

F330; Fixed exchange rates; Gold standard; intervention; N10; N12; N14; Reserves; Sterling area JEL classificationF310

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858037235     PISSN: 09685650     EISSN: 14740052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0968565011000308     Document Type: Review

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