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Explaining Anomalous Wage Inflation in the 1930s United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2020

Christopher Hanes
Christopher Hanes*
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Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902. E-mail: chanes@binghamton.edu.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 1031 - 1070
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This paper is derived from an earlier working paper “Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: Lessons from the 1930s U.S.” (March 2013). For comments and suggestions on that paper and the present version I thank William English, John Fernald, Price Fishback, James Hamilton, Andrew Jalil, Barry Jones, Edward Nelson, Gary Richardson, Eric Swanson, Susan Wolcott, and Wei Xiao. I would also like to thank participants at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco conference “The Past and Future of Monetary Policy” (March 2013) and economic history workshops at Yale, Rutgers, and Colgate. Special thanks to Carola Binder for her news index from Binder (2016).

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