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The 1920s and the 1990s in Mutual Reflection

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a new analysis of the U. S. economy in the 1920s that is illuminated by contrasts with the 1990s, and it also re examines the causes of the Great Depression. In both the 1920s and the 1990s the acceleration of productivity growth linked to the delayed effects of previously...

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De la autonomía a la cooperación : el cambio de targeting del Banco Central de Chile en la década de 1930

González Aliaga, Uziel - In: Investigaciones de historia económica 17 (2021) 4, pp. 47-57

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The Economic Consequences of the Franc Poincare

Eichengreen, Barry; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

Following the fiscal stabilisation of 1926 and the accompanying return of the French franc to the Gold Standard, France enjoyed several years of fast growth and remained immune to the effects of the Great Depression until early 1931. Accounts of this period emphasize the undervaluation of the...

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Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System

Bordo, Michael D; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we speculate about the evolution of the international monetary system in the last two-thirds of the twentieth century absent the Great Depression, but present the major post-Depression political and economic upheavals: World War II and the Cold War. We argue that without the...

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The anatomy of a trade collapse: The UK, 1929-33

De Bromhead, Alan; Fernihough, Alan; Lampe, Markus; … - 2018

A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The …; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade … what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free …

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