New perspectives on the 1931 banking crisis in Germany and Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8418833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Kopper (0000-0001-5373-1155, Bielefeld University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-229 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076791.2011.555107 |
| OpenAlex | W1975381674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Until today, most research on the Great Depression has focused on the failures of monetary and currency policies. A new look at the Great Depression challenges the dominant research opinion that the credit contraction was the main cause for the aggravated depression. The big German banks did not reduce the amount of credit and defaulted because of their high write-offs on big loans. The write-offs occurred as a consequence of the insufficient monitoring of debtors. The relation between the banks and their debtors was highly asymmetric and was characterised by the opportunistic behaviour of debtors
Business · Currency · Default · Depression (economics · Economics · Financial crisis · Financial system · German · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Monetary economics · Political science · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · Economic Theory and Policy · Finance · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |