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- Title
Shadowy Banks and Financial Contagion during the Great Depression: A Retrospective on Friedman and Schwartz.
- Authors
Mitchener, Kris James; Richardson, Gary
- Abstract
This essay assesses whether network linkages within the banking system amplified the real effects of bank failures during the Great Contraction. In 1929, nearly all interbank deposits held by Federal Reserve member banks belonged to 'shadowy' nonmember banks which were outside the regulatory reach of federal regulators. Regional banking panics in the early 1930s drained these interbank deposits from central reserve city banks. Money-center banks in Chicago and New York responded to volatile and declining interbank deposits by changing their asset composition. They reduced their lending to businesses and individuals, and increased their holdings of cash and government bonds.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MONETARY History of the United States 1867-1960, A (Book); FRIEDMAN, Michael, 1947-; SCHWARTZ, Anna Jacobson, 1915-2012; GREAT Depression, 1929-1939; BANKING industry; ASSET allocation; BANKING regulatory agencies; FEDERAL Reserve banks
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2013, Vol 103, Issue 3, p73
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1257/aer.103.3.73