How Japan remained on the Gold Standard despite unsustainable external debt
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Keywords
Gold standard; Japanese debt; Pre-WWI economies; Anglo-Japanese alliance; Financial crises;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East
- N25 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Asia including Middle East
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
- F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
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