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Lessons from the seven years war

Isabel Schnabel and Hyun Song Shin


A banking collapse in Amsterdam rocked European financial markets in 1763. Isabel Schnabel and Hyun Song Shin draw parallels between that crisis and the events that brought down Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, concluding that liquidity risk was the fundamental weakness in both cases.


October 2003     Paper Number CEPCP150

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