@techreport{NBERw14120,
 title = "Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression",
 author = "Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "14120",
 year = "2008",
 month = "June",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14120",
 abstract = {New data reveals that bank distress peaked in New York City, at the center of the United States money market, in July and August 1931, when the banking crisis peaked in Germany and before Britain abandoned the gold standard. This paper tests competing theories about the causes of New York's banking crisis. The cause appears to have been intensified regulatory scrutiny, which was a delayed reaction to the failure of the Bank of United States, rather than the exposure of money-center banks to events overseas.},
}