On the aggregate welfare cost of Great Depression unemployment

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1529-1544

  Chatterjee, Satyajit ^a   Corbae, Dean ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Unemployment; Welfare cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547755800     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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