Data Sets

The data, along with descriptions, used in the chapters of Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century appear below. All data are available to download as Microsoft Excel files.

Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century

Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

A Second Look at the U.S. Great Depression from a Neoclassical Perspective

Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The Great U.K. Depression: A Puzzle and Possible Resolution

Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The Great Depression in Canada and the United States: A Neoclassical Perspective

Pedro Amaral and James C. MacGee
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The French Depression in the 1930s

Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The Role of Real Wages, Productivity, and Fiscal Policy in Germany’s Great Depression, 1928-37

Jonas D.M. Fisher and Andreas Hornstein
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The Great Depression in Italy: Trade Restrictions and Real Wage Rigidities

Fabrizio Perri and Vincenzo Quadrini
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

Argentina’s Lost Decade and the Subsequent Recovery Puzzle

Finn E. Kydland and Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s

Raphael Bergoeing, Patrick J. Kehoe, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Raimundo Soto
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The 1990s in Japan: A Lost Decade

Fumio Hayashi and Edward C. Prescott
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

The Brazilian Depression in the 1980s and 1990s

Mirta S. Bugarin, Roberto Ellery Jr., Victor Gomes, and Arilton Teixeira
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

Tariffs and the Great Depression Revisited

Mario J. Crucini and James A. Kahn
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

Recent Great Depressions: Aggregate Growth in New Zealand and Switzerland

Timothy J. Kehoe and Kim J. Ruhl
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

What Can We Learn from the 1998-2002 Depression in Argentina?

Timothy J. Kehoe
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

Prosperity and Depression

Edward C. Prescott
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]

Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression in Finland in the 1990s

Juan Carlos Conesa, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Kim J. Ruhl
Data Description [pdf]          Data [xls]