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Title: Europe?s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War

Author(s): Nikolaus Wolf

Publication Date: August 2010

Keyword(s): Europe and Great Depression

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to survey and re-interpret the extensive literature that tried to explain both the depth of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end ? indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international institutions suffered from a lack of reciprocal trust and commitment, which can be clearly illustrated in the realm of monetary policy, but affected many other areas of policymaking, such as energy or migration policies. These institutions in turn affected expectations and thereby the extent to which for example expansionary policies could be effective.

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Wolf, N. 2010. 'Europe?s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7957