The liquidity trap and U.S. interest rates in the 1930s

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-194

  Hanes, Christopher ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Depression; Liquidity trap; Monetary policy; Zero bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644745309     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0017     Document Type: Article

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