Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, grade: 1,3, EBS European Business School gGmbH, language: En

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, grade: 1,3, EBS European Business School gGmbH, language: En

This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the Depression. We assemble bank-level data for virtually

This is the first study of five US banking panics of the Great Depression. Wicker's findings challenge many of the commonly held assumptions about the events of