Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 863-883

  Calomiris, Charles W ^a   Mason, Joseph R ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY   (United States)

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