Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933

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Title:	Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933
Author(s):	Gary Richardson
Volume:	25 Editor(s): Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom ISBN: 978-0-7623-1370-9 eISBN: 978-1-84950-459-1
Citation:	Gary Richardson (2007), Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933, in Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom (ed.) 25 (Research in Economic History, Volume 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.69-147
DOI:	10.1016/S0363-3268(07)25002-5 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	During the contraction from 1929 to 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 chapter introduces 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 during the period, which were published by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1937.