TY  - JOUR
AU  - Richardson,Gary
AU  - Gou,Michael
TI  - Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History.
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16872
PY  - 2011
Y2  - March 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16872
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16872.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

Michael Gou
3151 Social Science Plaza
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
E-Mail: mgou@uci.edu
AB  - Dun’s Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. This essay reconstructs that series, links it to its successors, and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis.
ER  -