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12 - A Tale of Two Countries and Two Booms, Canada and the United States in the 1920s and the 2000s

The Roles of Monetary and Financial Stability Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

By
Ehsan U.Lawrence L. ChoudhriSchembri
Edited by
Owen F. Humpage
Owen F. Humpage
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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Current Federal Reserve Policy Under the Lens of Economic History
Essays to Commemorate the Federal Reserve System's Centennial
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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