Tag Archives: Great Depression

Bond Finance and the Great Depression

Attending the Social Science History Association Meetings in Toronto this weekend provided as usual an opportunity to take in new papers and ideas, digest them and then think about what further insight they might add to our knowledge of past economic events.  One such paper was Richard Sutch’s (University of California) “Financing the Great War: […]

The Differential Timing of the Great Depression

The Economic History Association meetings currently underway in Washington D.C. have a number of fascinating sessions including several on economic depression and financial crises.  One paper by Thilo Albers (Humboldt University Berlin) and Martin Uebele (University of Groningen) is particularly interesting given that it presents a new monthly international dataset for the interwar period (1925-1936) […]