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  • Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson, The Microeconomics of New Deal Policy (Elsevier, Explorations in Economic History, 50(4), 2012), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/microeconomics-new-deal-policy/does-skin-game-reduce-risk-taking-leverage-liability-and-long-run-consequences-new-deal-banking.

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This essay examines how the Banking Acts of the 1933 and 1935 and related New Deal legislation influenced risk taking...

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