This history of the Great Depression was prepared for The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. It describes real and imagined causes of the Depression, bank failures and deflation, the Fed ...

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Second, these declines raised death rates and contributed to the adverse mortality trends experienced by prime-age non-Hispanic Whites and, to a lesser extent, Blacks from 1999-2019. However, ...

Valerie Ramey, an NBER Research Associate in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics Programs, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Professor of ...

This chapter explores the interaction between the enforcement of and compliance with difficult-to-enforce rules in the context of data regulation. We focus on the effect of the introduction of the ...