The ICC, freight rates, and the Great Depression

O’Brien, Anthony Patrick

doi:10.1016/0014-4983(89)90005-3

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Regulation: a Partial Explanation For The Small Decline In N1

Frb Industrial Production Weighted Carloadings1

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“…O'Brien (1989) argues that the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation 17 See McDiarmid (1947) and Brecher (1957). These tariffs had differential impacts across provinces.…”

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Trade, Relative Prices, and the Canadian Great Depression

Amaral¹,

MacGee²

2016

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“…O'Brien (1989) argues that the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation 17 See McDiarmid (1947) and Brecher (1957). These tariffs had differential impacts across provinces.…”

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confidence: 99%

Trade, Relative Prices, and the Canadian Great Depression

Amaral¹,

MacGee²

2016

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“…The loss of business to trucking helped to secure the passage of the Motor Carrier Act in 1935, which regulated truck rates, but it had relatively little effect in the period under consideration (Hultgren, 1948;O'Brien, 1989).…”

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How could everyone have been so wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with the railroads

Klug

Landon‐Lane

White

2005

Explorations in Economic History

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“…The series of nominal rail revenues is obtained by splicing together the data from O'Brien, ‘ICC’, app. B, for the years 1867–81 with ser.…”

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The cost of railroad regulation: the disintegration of American agricultural markets in the interwar period

Federico

Sharp

2013

The Economic History Review

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We investigate the costs of transportation regulation using the example of agricultural markets in the United States. Using a large database of prices by state of agricultural commodities, we find that dispersion fell for many commodities until the First World War. We demonstrate that this reflected changes in transportation costs which in turn in the long run depended on productivity growth in railroads. 1920 marked a change in this relationship, however, and between the First and Second World Wars we find considerable disintegration of agricultural markets, ultimately as a consequence of the 1920 Transportation Act. We argue that this benefited railroad companies in the 1920s and workers in the 1930s, and we put forward an estimate of the welfare losses for the consumers of railroad services (i.e. agricultural producers and final consumers)

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The ICC, freight rates, and the Great Depression

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Trade, Relative Prices, and the Canadian Great Depression

Trade, Relative Prices, and the Canadian Great Depression

How could everyone have been so wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with the railroads

The cost of railroad regulation: the disintegration of American agricultural markets in the interwar period

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