Real Business Cycle Models of the Great Depression

Luca Pensieroso

No 10-01, Working Papers from Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC)

Abstract: This paper presents and assesses the recent application of models in the Real Business Cycle (RBC) tradition to the analysis of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main conclusion is that the breaking of the depression taboo has been a desirable completion of the cliometric revolution: no historic event should be exempt from a dispassionate quantitative analysis. On the other hand, the substantive contribution of RBC models is not yet sufficient to establish a new historiography of the Great Depression.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010
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