The current financial crisis: what should we learn from the great depressions of the Twentieth Century?

Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba and Timothy Kehoe
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No 421, Staff Report from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: Studying the experience of countries that have experienced great depressions during the twentieth century teaches us that massive public interventions in the economy to maintain employment and investment during a financial crisis can, if they distort incentives enough, lead to a great depression.

Date: 2009
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