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The Panic of 1907 was the first worldwide financial crisis of the twentieth century. It transformed a recession into a contraction surpassed in severity only by the Great Depression . 1 The panic’s impact is still felt today because it spurred the monetary reform movement that led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
Nov 19, 2012 · We study the impact of the 1907 Panic, the most severe economic crisis before the Great Depression, on the selection of Mexican immigration. We find that migrants were positively selected on height …
Jun 16, 2009 · The panic of 1907 (Bruner and Carr, 2007) was the twelfth bank panic since 1814, and one of the worst (Calomiris and Gorton, 2000) in US history. It was so bad that private bankers (such...
This paper, which is the introductory chapter in our book, "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm", from John Wiley & Sons, sketches the events of the panic and...
- An Earthquake, A Silent Crash, and “Perverse” Elasticity
- “Panic—Sheer Blind, Unreasoning Fear”
- Trusts as “Shadow Banks” and J.P. Morgan’s Role
- The Birth of The Fed: Conceived in Private But Born in Public
- Three Hundred Years of Crises
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Some financial crises stem from a single, large shock while others result from a combination of smaller shocks; the 1907 panic was the latter type. The San Francisco earthquake, which had occurred 3,000 miles away and a year earlier, in April 1906, helped set the stage for the panic. Losses from the earthquake triggered massive insurance payments f...
The final shock came on October 16 after a failed attempt to corner the stock of the United Copper Company. The main speculators were Augustus Heinze, who already owned much of United Copper and was president of a New York City bank, and Charles F. Morse, also a banker and “extreme character, even when judged by American speculative standards” (Spr...
Trusts, seemingly safe intermediaries limited to fiduciary activities, played a prominent role in the 1907 panic that in some ways resembled the role of “shadow” banks in the 2007-08 crisis (Frydman 2012). Like shadow banks, trusts were less regulated than banks, less liquid, more levered, and perhaps most importantly, lacked direct access to emerg...
In 1908, Congress created a bipartisan National Monetary Commission, chaired by Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich, to investigate the recurring banking panics in the United States and to propose reforms. When after two years the commission still had not agreed on a course of action, Aldrich took matters into his own hands and arranged a private ret...
Our aim with this series was to chronicle the mostly forgotten financial crises that occurred over the three hundred years before the Great Depression. We would like to say that we end with the 1907 crisis because after the Fed was established there were no crises left to chronicle—were it only so. It is true, however, that the Fed has largely elim...
The views expressed in this post are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors. Donald P. Morganis an assistant vice president in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Statistics G...
We examine international linkages during the 1907 financial crisis and revisit the hypothesis of Alexander Noyes, contemporary financial market observer, that the causes of the 1907 crisis were international in scope, not domestic.
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The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange suddenly fell almost 50% from its peak the previous year.
