The bell jar: Commercial interest rates between two revolutions, 1688–1789

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-208

  Flandreau, Marc ^a   Galimard, Christophe ^a,b   Jobst, Clemens ^c   Nogués Marco, Pilar ^a  

^a SCIENCES PO   (France)

^b Institute in Geneva   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511757419.007     Document Type: Chapter

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