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  References: National Sources

  Australian Office of Financial Management

  Austrian Federal Financing Agency

  BNB (Banque Nationale de Belgique)

  Banco Central del Uruguay

  Banco Central de Reserva (El Salvador)

  Banco de España

  Banco de la Republica (Dominican Republic)

  Banco de Portugal

  Bank of Canada

  Bank of Indonesia

  Bank of Japan

  Bank of Mauritius

  Bank of Thailand

  Bundesbank (Germany)

  Central Bank of Kenya

  Central Bank of Sri Lanka

  Central Bank of Tunisia

  Contraloria General de la Republica (Colombia)

  Danmarks Nationalbank

  Dipartamento del Tesoro (Italy)

  Direccion General de la Deuda Publica (Mexico)

  Dutch State Treasury Agency

  Estadisticas Historicas de Espana: Siglos XIX–XX (Spain)

  Finnish Historical National Accounts

  Historical Statistics of Japan

  Historical Statistics of the United States

  Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

  Ministère du Budget, des comptes public (France)

  Ministerio de Hacienda (Chile)

  Ministerio de Hacienda (Costa Rica)

  Ministry of Finance (Ecuador)

  Ministry of Finance (Egypt)

  Ministry of Finance (Norway)

  Monetary Authority (Singapore)

  National Accounts of the Netherlands

  New Zealand Treasury

  Nordic Historical National Accounts

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (for Greece)

  Riksgalden (National Debt Office, Sweden)

  South Africa Reserve Bank

  State Treasury (Finland)

  Statistical Abstracts Relating to British India

  Statistics Canada

  Statistics New Zealand

  Treasury Direct (United States)

  Turkish Treasury

  U.K. Debt Management Office

  NAME INDEX

  Page numbers for entries occurring in boxes are suffixed by a b; those for entries in figures, by an f; those for entries in notes, by an n, with the number of the note following; and those for entries in tables, by a t.

  Agénor, Pierre-Richard, 401n3, 402n27

  Aguiar, Mark, 77, 398n14, 400n5

  Alesina, Alberto, 137, 401n9

  Allen, Franklin, 393n2

  Allen, Robert C., 37, 176t, 177t, 178f, 296t, 297t, 298t, 299t, 305t, 306t, 396n8

  Arellano, Cristina, 399n4

  Australian Office of Financial Management, 330t, 335t, 340t

  Austrian Federal Financing Agency, 330t, 335t, 340t

  Baker, Melvin, 82b, 398n16

  Baliño, Tomás, 401n1

  Banco Central del Uruguay, 334t

  Banco Central de Reserva (El Salvador), 331t

  Banco de España, 325t, 333t, 338t, 343t

  Banco de Portugal, 333t, 338t, 343t

  Bank Indonesia, 324t, 332t, 341t

  Bank Negara, 324t

  Bank of Canada, 330t, 335t, 340t

  Bank of England, 70b, 79f, 323t

  Bank for International Settlements, 160t, 212, 217f, 245f, 324t, 325t, 404n24, 405n29

  Bank of Japan, 332t, 337t, 341t

  Bank of Mauritius, 337t, 342t

  Bank of Thailand, 325t, 334t, 339t, 343t

  Banque Nationale de Belgique (BNB), 307t, 330t, 340t

  Baptista, Asdrúbal, 40, 301t, 310t, 396n15

  Barro, Robert, 65, 250, 252, 253f, 254f, 347t, 397n19, 397n23, 399n7, 400n9, 402n33, 402n37, 407n6, 407n7, 407n14

  Bassino, Jean-Pascal, 298t, 308t, 309t

  Bazant, Jan, 328t, 329t, 332t, 334t, 337t, 342t

  Berg, Andrew, 408n1

  Bernanke, Ben S., xliv, 146–47, 209, 211, 212, 213, 351t, 352t, 358t, 361t, 362t, 364t, 365t, 367t, 369t, 370t, 372t, 374t, 377t, 379t, 383t, 386t, 390t, 393n6, 401n7, 401n9, 401n10, 404n11, 404n23

  Bertin, Rose, 275

  Blanchard, Olivier, 256, 407n11

  BNB. See Banque Nationale de Belgique

  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, 323t

  Bolivar, Simon, 93b

  Bonney, Richard, 89f, 395n7

  Bordo, Michael, 12, 74f, 148t, 150t, 151t, 153t, 156f, 159, 205f, 212, 241–42, 252f, 299t, 348t, 349t, 350t, 351t, 352t, 353t, 354t, 355t, 356t, 357t, 358t, 359t, 360t, 361t, 362t, 363t, 364t, 365t, 366t, 367t, 368t, 369t, 370t, 371t, 373t, 374t, 375t, 376t, 377t, 378t, 379t, 381t, 382t, 383t, 384t, 385t, 386t, 388t, 390t, 391t, 392t, 394n5, 401n2, 402n23, 404n24, 406n3

  Borensztein, Eduardo, 397n10

  Borodkin, L. I., 300t

  Boughton, James, 78f, 323t

  Brady, Nicholas, 83b

  Brahmananda, P. R., 40, 308t, 396n15

  Braun, Juan, 302t, 315t

  Brock, Philip, 117, 399n11

  Broner, Fernando, 397n18

  Brown, William Adams, 353t

  Buchanan, James, xliii, 393n3

  Bufman, Gil, 403n11

  Bulow, Jeremy, 56–57, 62, 395n14, 396n26, 397n7, 397n8, 397n9, 397n15, 399n2

  Bundesbank (Germany), 331t

  Burns, Arthur F., 262, 405n2, 407n14

  Bussiere, Matthieu, 408n1

  Butlin, N. G., 296t

  Cagan, Philip, 124, 126f, 183t, 184t, 185, 187t, 400n7, 403n5

  Calomiris, Charles, 401n1

  Calvo, Guillermo A., 74, 222, 230, 245, 393n2, 398n9, 398n13, 399n6, 400n11, 405n6, 407n6

  Cameron, Rondo E., 380t

  Camprubi Alcázar, Carlos, 394n6

  Caprio, Gerard, 10, 74f, 148t, 150t, 151t, 153t, 156, 156f, 205f, 216t, 252f, 348t, 349t, 350t, 351t, 352t, 353t, 354t, 355t, 356t, 357t, 358t, 359t, 360t, 361t, 362t, 363t, 365t, 366t, 367t, 368t, 369t, 370t, 371t, 372t, 373t, 374t, 375t, 376t, 377t, 378t, 379t, 380t, 381t, 382t, 383t, 384t, 385t, 386t, 388t, 390t, 391t, 392t, 394n5, 401n17, 402n30, 404n26

  Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 53

  Carlos, Ann, 70b, 397n4

  Carter, Susan B., 79f, 163f, 229f, 230f, 268t, 269t, 300t, 301t, 310t, 323t, 395n5

  Castaing, John, 37

  Ceauşescu, Nikolai, 51–52

  Central Bank of Kenya, 332t, 337t, 341t

  Central Bank of Sri Lanka, 333t, 339t, 343t

  Central Bank of Tunisia, 334t, 339t, 343t

  Centre d’études économiques de la Kath
olieke Universiteit Leuven, 307t, 330t, 340t

  Ceron, Jose, 402n26

  Cha, Myung Soo, 308t

  Cheng, Linsun, 124f, 315t, 330t, 357t, 394n6

  Chuhan, Punam, 398n13

  Cipolla, Carlo, 69b, 397n2

  Clay, C. G. A., 329t

  Cole, Harold L., 397n9

  Colliers International, 324t

  Colosio, Luis Donaldo, 108b

  Commerce Department, U.S., 207f

  Conant, Charles A., 348t, 349t, 350t, 351t, 352t, 353t, 355t, 356t, 359t, 361t, 363t, 364t, 365t, 367t, 368t, 369t, 370t, 373t, 374t, 375t, 377t, 378t, 379t, 380t, 381t, 382t, 383t, 384t, 387t, 388t, 389t, 390t, 391t

  Condoide, Mikhail V., 318t

  Contraloria General de la Republica (Colombia), 330t, 336t, 340t

  Cooper, Richard, 211, 404n20

  Correlates of War, 46t

  Course of the Exchange, 37, 302t, 303t, 304t

  Cowan, Kevin, 330t, 331t, 332t, 333t, 335t, 336t, 338t, 339t, 340t, 341t, 342t, 343t, 396n24, 399n1

  Crisp, Olga, 329t, 333t

  Curcuru, Stephanie, 404n22

  Danmarks National Bank, 331t, 340t

  della Paolera, Gerardo, 243t, 349t

  de Maddalena, Aldo, 298t

  Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, 156, 270, 271f, 401n2, 401n16, 407n22, 408n1

  Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Colombia), 324t

  Detragiache, Enrica, 156, 270, 271f, 401n2, 401n16, 407n22, 408n1

  Diamond, Douglas, 59, 145, 393n2, 397n11, 401n5, 401n6

  Diamond, Peter A., 399n8

  Díaz, José B., 296t, 297t, 298t, 299t, 300t, 307t, 308t, 309t, 311t, 330t, 335t, 340t

  Diaz-Alejandro, Carlos, 271, 271f, 407n25

  Dick, Trevor, 297t

  Dipartamento del Tesoro (Italy), 332t, 337t, 341t

  Direccion General de la Deuda Publica (Mexico), 332t, 337t, 342t

  Dooley, Michael, 211, 398n13, 404n19

  Dornbusch, Rudiger, 125, 222, 230, 245, 398n9, 400n8, 403n12, 405n6

  Drazen, Allan, 136, 401n8

  Drees, Burkhard, 401n16

  Dutch State Treasury Agency, 332t, 337t, 342t

  Dybvig, Philip H., 145, 393n2, 401n5, 401n6

  Eaton, Jonathan, 55, 57, 58, 65, 397n4, 397n6

  Economic History Data Desk, 36, 395n5

  The Economist, 78f, 323t, 404n10

  Edvinsson, Rodney, 300t, 309t, 396n11