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Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933

Research in Economic History

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1370-9, eISBN: 978-1-84950-459-1

Publication date: 18 December 2007

Abstract

During the contraction from 1929 to 1933, the Federal Reserve System tracked changes in the status of all banks operating in the United States and determined the cause of each bank suspension. This chapter introduces that hitherto dormant data and presents aggregate series constructed from it. The new data series will supplement, and in some cases, supplant the data currently used to study banking panics during the period, which were published by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1937.

Citation

Richardson, G. (2007), "Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933", Field, A.J., Clark, G. and Sundstrom, W.A. (Ed.) Research in Economic History (Research in Economic History, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 69-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0363-3268(07)25002-5

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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