O prêmio vai para:"What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?Lee E. OhanianNBER Working Paper No. 15258Issued in August 2009NBER Program(s): EFG---- Abstract -----Herbert Hoover. I develop a theory of labor market failure for the Great Depression based on Hoover's industrial labor program that provided industry with protection from unions in return for keeping nominal wages fixed. I find that the theory accounts for much of the depth of the Depression and for the asymmetry of the depression across sectors. The theory also can reconcile why deflation and low levels of nominal spending apparently had such large real effects during the 1930s, but not during other periods of significant deflation. "
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