TY  - JOUR
AU  - Richardson,Gary
TI  - Quarterly Data on the Categories and Causes of Bank Distress During the Great Depression
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12715
PY  - 2006
Y2  - December 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12715
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12715.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Gary Richardson
Department of Economics
University of California, Irvine
3155 Social Sciences Plaza
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Tel: 949/824-3189
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: garyr@uci.edu
AB  - During the contraction from 1929 through 1933, the Federal Reserve System tracked changes in the status of all banks operating in the United States and determined the cause of each bank suspension. This essay introduces quarterly series derived from that hitherto dormant data and presents aggregate series constructed from it. The new data series will supplement, and in some cases, supplant the data currently used to study banking panics of the Great Depression, which was published by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1937.
ER  -