banks: Banking Failures During the Great Depression

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Description

During the early great depression, the St. Louis Fed in the 8th Federal Reserve District was anti-interventionist, while the Atlanta Fed in the 6th Federal Reserve District was an advocate for helping banks in need. Mississippi was divided in half by these districts, with it's southern half in Atlanta's 6th District, and the upper half in St. Louis's 8th district. This data describes the number of banks in business over time in the 6th and 8th Federal Reserve Districts.

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Format

An object of class rda

Source

Banks online source

References

Richardson, Gary, and William Troost. “Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from a Federal Reserve District Border, 1929–1933.” Journal of Political Economy 117, no. 6 (2009): 1031–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/649603.


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