Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923

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Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. / Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric.

In: The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 79, No. 1, 03.2019, p. 1-31.

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Okazaki, T, Okubo, T & Strobl, E 2019, 'Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923', The Journal of Economic History, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050718000748

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Okazaki, T., Okubo, T., & Strobl, E. (2019). Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. The Journal of Economic History, 79(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050718000748

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Okazaki T, Okubo T, Strobl E. Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. The Journal of Economic History. 2019 Mar;79(1):1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050718000748

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Okazaki, Tetsuji ; Okubo, Toshihiro ; Strobl, Eric. / Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. In: The Journal of Economic History. 2019 ; Vol. 79, No. 1. pp. 1-31.

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