Sovereign defaults during the Great Depression: the role of fiscal fragility
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Keywords
Great Depression; Sovereign Defaults; Public Debt; Local Borrowing; Fiscal Development;JEL classification:
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
- H74 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Borrowing
- N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
- N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2017-01-29 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2017-01-29 (Macroeconomics)
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