Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97467 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1310
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Interwar macroeconomic history is a natural place to look for evidence on the correlations between (a) deflation and depression and (b) unexpected deflation and depression. We apply time-series methods to measure unexpected deflation or inflation for 26 countries from 1922 to 1939. The results suggest much variation across countries in the degree to which the ongoing deflation of the 1930s was unexpected. There is a significant, positive correlation between deflation and depression for the entire period but relatively little evidence of a role for unexpected deflation.
Subjects: 
inflation expectations
interwar period
Great Depression
JEL: 
E31
E37
N10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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