Betting on Hitler—The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany*
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عنوان ژورنال: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1531-4650,0033-5533
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.101