Financial frictions and employment during the great depression

E Benmelech, C Frydman, D Papanikolaou - Journal of Financial …, 2019 - Elsevier
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant
role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression using a …

Did bank distress stifle innovation during the Great Depression?

R Nanda, T Nicholas - Journal of Financial Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality and trajectory of
firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in …

Monetary intervention mitigated banking panics during the great depression: quasi-experimental evidence from a federal reserve district border, 1929–1933

G Richardson, W Troost - Journal of Political Economy, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
The Federal Reserve Act divided Mississippi between the 6th (Atlanta) and 8th (St. Louis)
Districts. During the Great Depression, these districts' policies differed. Atlanta championed …

[图书][B] Handbook of macroeconomics

JB Taylor, M Woodford - 1999 - books.google.com
Part 6: Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy. 19. Asset prices, consumption, and the
business cycle (JY Campbell). 20. Human behavior and the efficiency of the financial system …

Fiscal and financial crises

MD Bordo, CM Meissner - Handbook of macroeconomics, 2016 - Elsevier
Interconnections between banking crises and fiscal crises have a long history. We document
the long-run evolution from classic banking panics toward modern banking crises where …

[图书][B] The great recession: market failure or policy failure?

RL Hetzel - 2012 - books.google.com
Since publication of Hetzel's The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve (Cambridge
University Press, 2008), the intellectual consensus that had characterized macroeconomics …

Network contagion and interbank amplification during the Great Depression

KJ Mitchener, G Richardson - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Interbank networks amplified the contraction in lending during the Great Depression. Panics
induced banks in the hinterland to withdraw interbank deposits from Federal Reserve …

Sovereign debt in the 21st century: looking backward, looking forward

KJ Mitchener, C Trebesch - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature
has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing" lessons learned" in historical …

Arresting banking panics: Federal Reserve liquidity provision and the forgotten panic of 1929

M Carlson, KJ Mitchener… - Journal of Political …, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Scholars differ on whether central bank intervention mitigates banking panics. In April 1929,
a fruit fly infestation in Florida forced the US government to quarantine fruit shipments from …

Back to the future: Backtesting systemic risk measures during historical bank runs and the great depression

C Brownlees, B Chabot, E Ghysels, C Kurz - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
We evaluate the performance of two popular systemic risk measures, CoVaR and SRISK,
during eight financial panics in the era before FDIC insurance. Bank stock price and balance …