Mitchener, Kris James; Richardson, Gary - 2020
The Great Depression is infamous for banking panics, which were a symptomatic of a phenomenon that scholars have … these events and how banks that remained in operation after panics responded. We show that between 1929-32 banking panics … reduced lending by 13%, relative to its 1929 value, and the money multiplier and money supply by 36%. The banking panics, in …