Waldenstrom Daniel

Using Financial Markets to Analyze History: The Case of the Second World War Publication Archived

A central aspect of historical research is to provide explanations for the causes and effects of events that occurred in the past, in particular the Second World War. History can be analyzed and explained from different perspectives. Two su...

Did Nordic Countries Recognize the Gathering Storm of World War II? Evidence from the Bond Markets Publication Archived

This paper analyzes and compares different ways of assessing how people perceived impending threats of war in the past. Conventional Nordic historiography of World War II claims there were few, if any, people in the Nordic countries who per...

Using Markets to Measure Pre-War Threat Assessments: The Nordic Countries facing World War II Publication Archived

Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did ...