Monetary and financial forces in the Great Depression

Satyajit Chatterjee () and P. Dean Corbae ()

No 06-12, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: 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? These are some of the questions that have motivated economists to study the Great Depression. In this paper, the authors review some of the economic literature that attempts to answer these questions.

Keywords: Depressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006
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