Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century: Supporting Data and Code

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Created by: Prescott, Edward C.
Last Updated: 2020-01-09

Please note: this collection is the new home of the greatdepressionsbook.com website. Scroll down to see the accompanying data for each chapter of the book. The computer programs needed to calibrate the neoclassical growth model and then solve the model numerically, using data from Finland as an example, are included in the list of works but can also be found here.

The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was a watershed for both economic thought and economic policymaking. It led to the belief that market economies are inherently unstable and to the revolutionary work of John Maynard Keynes. Its impact on popular economic wisdom is still apparent today.

Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century, which uses a common framework to study sixteen depressions, from the interwar period in Europe and America as well as from more recent times in Japan and Latin America, challenges the Keynesian theory of depressions. It develops and uses a methodology for studying depressions that relies on growth accounting and the general equilibrium growth model.

Each chapter of the book is accompanied by a data file that contains all of the data used in the analysis. This collection also provides links to computer programs for applying the methodology.

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  418 2018-11-05 2019-11-18 Public
 

Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century

Kehoe, Timothy Jerome, 1953- and Prescott, Edward C.

2020-01-09 2024-02-13 Public
 

Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century

Kehoe, Timothy Jerome, 1953- and Prescott, Edward C.

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
  2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
 

The Great U.K. Depression: A Puzzle and Possible Resolution

Ohanian, Lee E. and Cole, Harold Linh, 1957-

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
 

The Great Depression in Canada and the United States: A Neoclassical Perspective

Amaral, Pedro S., Amaral, Pedro, and MacGee, James C.

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
 

The French Depression in the 1930s

Beaudry, Paul and Portier, Franck

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
 

The Role of Real Wages, Productivity, and Fiscal Policy in Germany’s Great Depression, 1928-37

Fisher, Jonas D. M. (Jonas Daniel Maurice), 1965- and Hornstein, Andreas

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
  2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public
 

Argentina’s Lost Decade and the Subsequent Recovery Puzzle

Zarazaga, Carlos Enrique and Kydland, Finn E.

2018-11-05 2020-01-13 Public