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Crisis? What crisis? Currency vs. banking in the Financial Crisis of 1931

This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through the Gold Standard played only a minor role in causing and propagating the crisis, while financial distress was important. We also find evidence of crisis propagation from Germany to the U.S. via the banking channel. Banking distress in both economies was apparently not endogenous to monetary policy. Results confirm Bernanke's (1983) conjecture that an independent, non-monetary financial channel of crisis propagation was operative in the Great Depression.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB 649 Discussion Paper ; No. 2010,014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Money and Interest Rates: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods
Thema
Great Depression
international business cycle transmission
Bayesian factor analysis
currency
banking
Finanzmarktkrise
Währungspolitik
Bankenliquidität
Goldwährung
Geldpolitik
Transmissionsmechanismus
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Deutschland
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ritschl, Albrecht
Sarferaz, Samad
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ritschl, Albrecht
  • Sarferaz, Samad
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk

Entstanden

  • 2010

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