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040160 SE Economic History: The Great Depression (MA) (2015W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

In this seminar, we will discuss recent and classical text dealing with the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 06.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 13.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 20.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 27.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 01.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 15.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 19.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 26.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

24 November 2015 Exchange rate policy
• Eichengreen and Sachs: Exchange rates and economic recovery in the 1930s, in: Journal of Economic History, 45 (4), 1985, 925-946
• Wolf: Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe’s exit from gold, January 1928-December 1936, in: Explorations in Economic History, 45 (4), 2008, 383-401

1 December 2015 Trade policy
• Eichengreen and Irwin: Trade blocks, currency blocks and the reorientation of World trade in the 1930s, in: Journal of International Economics, 38 (1-2), 1995, 1-24
• Eichengreen and Irwin: The slide to protectionism in the Great Depression: Who succumbed and why?, in: Journal of Economic History, 70 (4), 2010, 871-897

15 December 2015 International aspects: Germany
• Ritschl: Reparation Transfers, the Borchardt Hypothesis, and the Great Depression in Germany, 1929-1932: A Guided Tour for Hard-Headed Keynesians, in: European Review of Economic History 2 (1), 1998, 49-72
• Schnabel: The German twin crisis of 1931, in: Journal of Economic History, 64 (3), 2004, 822-871

12 January 2016 International aspects: Britain
• Middleton: British monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s. in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26 (3), 2010, 414-441
• Billings and Capie: Financial crisis, contagion, and the British banking system between the world wars, in: Business History, 53 (2), 2011, 193-215

19 January 2016 International aspects: Japan
• Cha: Did Takahashi Korekiyo rescue Japan from the Great Depression?, in: Journal of Economic History, 63 (1), 2003, 127-144
• Shibamoto and Shizume: Exchange rate adjustment, monetary policy and fiscal stimulus in Japan’s escape from the Great Depression, in: Explorations in Economic History, 53 (3), 2014, 1-18

26 January 2016 International Aspects: Latin America
• Della Paolera and Taylor: Economic recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, expectations, and the change of macroeconomic regime, in: Journal of Economic History, 59 (3), 1999, 567-599
• Haber: Business enterprise and the Great Depression in Brazil – A study of profits and losses in textile manufacturing, in: Business History Review, 66 (2), 1992, 335-363

Assessment and permitted materials

• Term paper (65.000 characters or approx. 25 pages) accounts for 60 percent of the final mark. You have to submit the paper until 30 June 2016, but you are strongly encouraged to submit until 1 March 2016.
• Presentation (30-40 minutes per students, supported by a 1 page executive summary), accounts for 25 percent of the final mark.
• Permanent and active participation, accounts for 15 percent of the final mark.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students should learn to read academmic text and to present the key insight to fellow students.

Examination topics

Presentation of papers by studens, discussion among students.

Reading list

Association in the course directory

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