This directory contains materials for Capital Taxation during the US Great Depression Staff Reports 451/452 by Ellen McGrattan The subdirectories are: ../appendix Fortran codes to replicate results in separate appendix (452) ../codes Fortran codes to replicate results in main paper (451) ../data Data used to construct national accounts and tax rates ../nytimes Articles from the New York Times archive ../subroutines Subroutines called by Fortran codes ../tex Final drafts of sr451/sr452 and figures Instructions for generating the Figures and Tables in the main text: Figures I-V (Main results) * Basic model -- Go to ./codes/basic -- Copy model1.inp.bench to model1.inp -- Compile model1.f90 (with compile statement in file comp) -- Open Matlab and run mod1sim.m -- Relevant results in Figures I-V * Extended model -- Go to ./codes/extended -- Copy model2.inp.bench to model2.inp -- Compile model2.f90 (with compile statement in file comp) -- Open Matlab and run mod2sim.m -- Relevant results in Figures I-V Figures V-IX (Investigating the results) * Key factors (Figures V-VI) -- Go to ./codes/extended -- Copy model2.inp.tau* to model2.inp, *=d[1-4] or u[1-5] -- Compile model2.f90 (with compile statement in file comp) -- Open Matlab and run mod2sim.m * Variations in benchmark simulation (Figures VII-IX) -- Go to ./codes/extended -- Copy model2.inp.* to model2.inp, *= notaud,notauu,pf,myop3031,bca -- Compile model2.f90 (with compile statement in file comp) -- Open Matlab and run mod2sim.m Figure X and Table III (Other Countries), Tables I (Tax Rates), and Table A.1 (National Accounts and Hours) -- Go to ./data -- Open Matlab and run results.m -- Tables I, III, A.1 and Figure X are shown For details on the results in the Technical Appendix (SR452), see READMEs in ./appendix and ./tex/sr452figs. Ellen McGrattan January 2012