130 years of fiscal vulnerabilities and currency crashes in advanced economies

IMF Economic Review

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 683-716

  Fratzscher, Marcel ^a   Mehl, Arnaud ^a   Vansteenkiste, Isabel ^a  

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EID: 84984735363     PISSN: 20414161     EISSN: 2041417X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/imfer.2011.23     Document Type: Article

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