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The Quantitative International Comparison of Financial Structure and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Raymond W. Goldsmith
Raymond W. Goldsmith
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

The quantitative international comparison of financial structure and development involves three levels of problems: first, what is the purpose of such comparisons; second, given these objectives, what are the concrete features of the financial system to be compared; and, third, how are these comparisons to be carried out, that is, what data can be used and how should they be processed and arranged?

Type
Papers Presented at the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 216 - 237
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1975

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References

Editor's Note: This paper was presented in a joint session of the Economic History Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Finance Association devoted to “Comparison of Financial Systems” in San Francisco, December 29, 1974. Approximately a half dozen introductory pages of the paper have been omitted.

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