Financial Crisis and Great Depression till 1929

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FINANCIAL CRISIS AND GREAT DEPRESSION TILL 1929
A financial crisis can be considered to be the most important disorder in financial
markets that is necessarily featured by a steep decrease in prices of assets and failure of
different financial as well as nonfinancial corporations. For instance, the nation United States
underwent severe financial crises during the period (FY1819, FY 1837, FY 1857, FY 1873,
FY 1884, FY 1893), and during the year 1907, during the first 3 years of essentially the
"Great Depression" ranging between the period (FY 1929- FY 1939), and in the period 2007
to the year 2011. Moreover, the nation United States narrowly averted a severe financial
crisis during the later part of the period1980's, commonly referred to as savings together with
loan crisis (Kamin 2016). Mishkin (together with several other economists) can be considered
to be a powerful advocate of the outlook that financial crises principally stem from
information issues. Particularly, Mishkin argues that economic crises crop up when
interruptions to the financial scheme lead to a huge surge in unfavourable selection and moral
hazard issues that economic markets are incapable to channel funds effectively from savers to
financiers (Mishkin 1996). As suggested by Mishkin, financial crisis in comparatively well
developed nations namely the United States tend have the propensity to be triggered by
different factors.
Mishkin’s View on Causes and Effects of Great Depression with analysis of sequence of
incidents in emerging market monetary crisis
As per Mishkin’s opinion, factors causing the Great Depression (during the period
1929 to the year 1939) include multiple trigger incidents (counting a deliberate contraction of
supply of money to curtail speculation of stock market) directed to steep decrease in
particularly adverse selection as well as moral hazards. According to Mishkin, breakdown of
credit channels also led to a sharp contraction in overall (aggregate) output and economic
action in common (Law et al. 2015). Decline in level of price by approximately 25% (during

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the period 1930 - 1933) directed towards severe deflation of debt that again intensified and
protracted the depression.
The depression during the period 1929 to approximately 1939 was characterised by
the enhanced rates of real interest referring towards tighter monetary policy for curbing
excessive speculation of market by increasing rates of interest. During the FY 1929, a stock
market breakdown that led to loss of value by around 90% by the middle of the period 1932
also led to the great depression. Again, during the period (FY 1930 to FY 1933), severe bank
panics, enhanced uncertainty together with deteriorating bank balance sheets also directed
towards the Great Depression during the specified period (Temin 2016). The Subprime crisis
recorded during the period 2007 to roughly 2011 can be characterised by the financial
innovation in the segments of mortgage and housing price bubble (recorded during the period
2002 to 2006) (Anderson et al. 2017). Financial innovation in the segment of mortgage refers
to subprime mortgage, mortgage supported securities and collateralised obligations of debt.
In addition to this, housing price bubbles (registered during the period 2002 to 2007) is
featured by the enhancement in the liquidity from flows of cash escalating to the United
States.
Figure: Financial Crisis
(Source: Anderson et al. 2017)