The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan's Banks' Survival in the 1930s

Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason, Marc Weidenmier, Katherine Bobroff

NBER Working Paper No. 18427
Issued in September 2012

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This paper was prepared for the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference, "The Microeconomics of New Deal Policy," July 26-27, 2012. For helpful comments, we thank Price Fishback, Eugene White, Kris Mitchener, Larry Neal, Gary Richardson, Eric Hilt, Shawn Kantor, and other participants in the February 2012 "pre-conference," and July 2012 conference for helpful comments on an earlier draft. Adonis Antoniades and Guojun Chen provided superb research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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