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Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century
, 2007 The papers in this volume study twelve great depressions—those in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the interwar period; those in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile during the “lost decade” of the 1980s; those in New Zealand and Switzerland that began in the early 1970s; and another great depression in Argentina ...
Timothy J. Kehoe, Edward C. Prescott
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Capital taxation during the U.S. Great Depression [PDF]
Previous studies quantifying the effects of increased capital taxation during the U.S. Great Depression find that its contribution is small, both in accounting for the downturn in the early 1930s and in accounting for the slow recovery after 1934.
Ellen R. McGrattan
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Institutions and government growth: a comparison of the 1890s and the 1930s [PDF]
Statistics on the size and growth of the U.S. federal government, in addition to public statements by President Franklin Roosevelt, seem to indicate that the Great Depression was the primary event that caused the dramatic growth in government spending ...
Andrew F. Kozak +2 more
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Understanding the Great Depression: Lessons for Current Policy [PDF]
Over the four years beginning in the summer of 1929, financial markets, labor markets and goods markets all virtually ceased to function. Throughout this, the government policymaking apparatus seemed helpless.
Stephen G. Cecchetti
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Monetary and financial forces in the Great Depression [PDF]
What caused the worldwide collapse in output from 1929 to 1933? Why was the recovery from the trough of 1933 so protracted for the U.S.? How costly was the decline in terms of welfare? Was the decline preventable?
Dean Corbae, Satyajit Chatterjee
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The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis [PDF]
The authors evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis--that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression.
Lawrence J. Christiano +2 more
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Was the Great Depression a Low-Level Equilibrium? [PDF]
Was the Great Depression the outcome of a massive coordination failure? Or was it a unique equilibrium response to adverse shocks? More generally, do aggregates fluctuate partly because agents occasionally settle on inferior, low-level equilibria?
Boyan Jovanovic, John Dagsvik
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Labor Market Patterns Since 2007 [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] The period since 2007 has been a time of significant change for labor markets. The Great Recession of 2007-2009, the longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression, caused the unemployment rate to briefly reach 10%, and labor markets ...
Donovan, Sarah A, Labonte, Marc
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Real Business Cycle Models of the Great Depression : a Critical Survey [PDF]
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Among the differing new interpretations, that of the real business cycle (RBC) is particularly significant.
Luca, PENSIEROSO
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"Liquidation" Cycles: Old-Fashioned Real Business Cycle Theory and the Great Depression [PDF]
During the 1929-33 slide into the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve took almost no steps to keep the money supply or the price level stable. Instead, the Federal Reserve acted - disastrously - as if the gathering Great Depression could not be avoided,
J. Bradford De Long
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