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Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises : Evidence from the Panic of 1907

Jaremski, Matthew S.; Wheelock, David C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper provides quantitative evidence on interbank transmission of financial distress in the Panic of 1907 and ensuing recession. Originating in New York City, the panic led to payment suspensions and emergency currency issuance in many cities. Data on the universe of interbank connections...

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Wealth of Two Nations : The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most persistent. In this paper, we construct the first continuous series on white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios...

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The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

Alston, Lee J.; Duggan, Marie Christine; Pastrana, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We explore the long run impact of the Spanish missions on Native American outcomes in the early 20th century. Native communities who interacted with Spanish missionaries developed into enclaves which blended Catholicism with native culture. Some survived assaults on their property rights by...

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Do Government Spending Multipliers Depend on the Sign of the Shock?

Ben Zeev, Nadav; Ramey, Valerie A.; Zubairy, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We analyze whether government spending multipliers differ by the sign of the shock. Using aggregate historical U.S. data, we apply Ben Zeev's (2020) nonlinear diagnostic tests and find evidence of nonlinearities in the impulse response functions of both government spending and GDP. We then...

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Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years

Romer, Christina; Romer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The narrative approach to macroeconomic identification uses qualitative sources, such as newspapers or government records, to provide information that can help establish causal relationships. This paper discusses the requirements for rigorous narrative analysis using fresh research on the impact...

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The Model T

Eli, Shari; Hausman, Joshua K.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass market good between 1909 and 1919. We argue that the answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States and its...

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How do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?

Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...

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Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America

Davis, Joseph H. - 2009

Most major American industrial business cycles from around 1880 to the First World War were caused by fluctuations in the size of the cotton harvest due to economically exogenous factors such as weather. Wheat and corn harvests did not affect industrial production; nor did the cotton harvest...

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Stock Volatility and the Great Depression

Cortes, Gustavo Silva - 2017

Stock return volatility during the Great Depression has been labeled a "volatility puzzle" because the standard …, and Jones; 1990). We investigate the "volatility puzzle" using a new series of building permits, a forward-looking measure … of economic activity. Our results suggest that the volatility of building permit growth largely explains the high level …

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Real Effects of Stabilizing Private Money Creation

Xu, Chenzi; Yang, He - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction-friction sensitive, sector of the economy. We do so in the context of the NationalBanking Act of 1864 in the United States that created a new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency...

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