Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Reiske, Monique - 2024
Using interwar German agriculture as a case, this paper explores the political cost of debt deflation which we … characterize with farmers' leverage ratios. Primary deficits drove their increase during 1924-1928, but deflation pushed them to … economic distress as well as political radicalization. Our results suggest that debt deflation increased the Nazi party's rural …