standard and endured a sustained inflation, France remained on a bimetallic standard for the war's duration. For wars of … inflation tax although in practice it was not a major source of wartime finance. France, on the other hand, had squandered her …

history of six countries where there is sufficient information, three in Europe (England, France, and Italy) and three in the …

-inconsistency problem and moral hazard. Reviewing the evidence for central banks' crisis management in the U.S., the U.K. and France from …

from the Bank of France, intermediated by the largest banks, prevented a closure of the Bourse …

The occupation payments made by France to Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944 represent one of the largest recorded … French policies that funded payments to Germany. Occupation payments required a 16 percent reduction of consumption for … twenty years, with the draft of labor to Germany and wage and price controls adding substantially to this burden. Vichy …

When faced with a run on a "systemically important" but insolvent bank in 1889, the Banque de France pre …