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The Ends of 27 Big Depressions / Martin Ellison, Sang Seok Lee, Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellison, Martin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27586.
- NBER working paper series no. w27586
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- How did countries recover from the Great Depression? In this paper we explore the argument that leaving the gold standard helped by boosting inflationary expectations and lowering real interest rates. We do so for a sample of 27 countries, using modern nowcasting methods and a new data set containing more than 230, 000 monthly and quarterly observations for over 1, 500 variables. In those cases where the departure from gold happened on clearly defined dates, it seems clear that inflationary expectations rose in the wake of departure. IV, diff-in-diff, and synthetic matching techniques suggest that the relationship is causal.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2020.
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