Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History

dc.contributor.author	MARCUS, Nathan
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-25T09:26:37Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-25T09:26:37Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the Austrian Boden-Kredit Anstalt's collapse of September 1929, data from bank balance sheets are not a reliable source, whereas data such as bond yields and interest rate differentials help locate the origin of the financial crisis in the resignation of Austria's Chancellor Ignaz Seipel in April 1929.	en
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dc.identifier.issn	1830-7728
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/19314
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	EUI MWP	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2011/35	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Financial history	en
dc.subject	Banking history	en
dc.subject	Interwar Austria	en
dc.subject	1929	en
dc.subject	Boden-Kredit Anstalt	en
dc.title	Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
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