Currency Crises and Output Dynamics

Output effects of currency crises are often estimated to be negative and persistent. A new banking crisis database allows us to construct pure currency collapses that are not associated with banking crises. The estimates show that countries facing a pure currency crisis have fully recovery of output in the long-run while twin crisis leads to larger output losses. Allowing for long lags is a critical element in understanding the recovery dynamics. Further analysis reveals that there is a similar lag in the association between export growth and recovery dynamics