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title: Recovery Time from 1929 Crash
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5221568/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5221568
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5221568
featured: 2025-04-23
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Recovery Time from 1929 Crash

The recovery time for investments in the Dow Jones Industrial Average made at the 1929 peak varies between 16 and 29.75 years, depending on dividend reinvestment and inflation/deflation considerations.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5221568
- Identifier: SSRN 5221568
- Released: 2025-04-18
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 94 (2025-04-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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