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040160 SE Economic History: The Great Depression (MA) (2015W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

In this seminar, we will discuss recent and classical text dealing with the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s.

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 06.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 13.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 20.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 27.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 03.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 10.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 17.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 24.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 01.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 15.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 12.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 19.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 26.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

6 October 2015 Introduction & allocation of topics to students

13 October 2015 Great Depression in the United States
• Bernanke: Non-monetary effects of the financial crisis in the propagation of the Great Depression, in: American Economic Review, 73 (3), 1983, 257-276
• Romer: The Great Crash and the onset of the Great Depression, in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 105 (3), 1990, 597-624

20 October 2015 The U.S. banking crisis and the Great Depression
• Calomiris and Mason: Contagion and bank failures during the Great Depression. The June 1932 Chicago banking panic, in: American Economic Review, 87 (5), 1997, 863-883
• Calomiris and Mason: Fundamentals, panics, and bank distress during the depression, in: American Economic Review, 93 (5), 2003, 1615-1647

27 October 2015 Bank regulation
• Mitchener: Bank supervision, regulation, and instability during the Great Depression, in: Journal of Economic History, 65 (1), 2005, 152-185
• Richardson and van Horn: Intensified regulatory scrutiny and bank distress in New York City during the Great Depression, in: Journal of Economic History, 69 (2), 2009, 446-465

3 November 2015 International aspects of the banking crisis
• Grossman: The shoe that didn’t drop. Explaining banking stability during the Great Depression, in: Journal of Economic History, 54 (3), 1994, 654-682
• Accominotti: London merchant banks, the central European panic, and the Sterling crisis of 1931, in: Journal of Economic History, 72 (1), 2012, 1-43

10 November 2015 The New Deal and fiscal policy in the United States
• Fishback, Kantor, and Wallis: Can the new deal’s three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county, analysis, in: Explorations in Economic History, 40 (3), 2003, 278-307
• Fishback and Kachanovskaya: The multiplier for federal spending in the states during the Great Depression, in: Journal of Economic History, 75 (1), 2015, 125-162

17 November 2015 Monetary policy in the United States
• Romer: What ended the Great Depression, in: Journal of Economic History, 52 (4), 1992, 757-784
• Bordo, Choudrhi, and Schwartz: Was expansionary monetary policy feasible during the great contraction? In: Explorations in Economic History, 39 (1), 2002, 1-28

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

• Term paper (65.000 characters or approx. 25 pages) accounts for 60 percent of the final mark. You have to submit the paper until 30 June 2016, but you are strongly encouraged to submit until 1 March 2016.
• Presentation (30-40 minutes per students, supported by a 1 page executive summary), accounts for 25 percent of the final mark.
• Permanent and active participation, accounts for 15 percent of the final mark.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students should learn to read academmic text and to present the key insight to fellow students.

Prüfungsstoff

Presentation of papers by studens, discussion among students.

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:28