We analyse banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than 100 developing countries from … countries, even after taking into account a host of internal macroeconomic factors. …

by international trade linkages than to countries in similar macroeconomic circumstances. … is, currency crises appear to pass ‘contagiously’ from one country to another. The paper provides a survey of the … industrialized countries, we find evidence of contagion. Contagion appears to spread more easily to countries that are closely tied …

-up, and country-specific long-term experience. Examining competition policy and macroeconomic demand management, we find only …This paper places Anglo-German growth after World War II in a long-term comparative perspective. Reviewing explanations … of why post-war Germany is more dynamic than Britain, we evaluate arguments stressing institutional change, catching …

of international trade. Intervention by creditor country governments in the form of the Dawes Loan, League of Nations … characterization of the data. A third question is whether default in the 1930s made it more difficult for countries to borrow in the … 1940s and 1950s. I find no evidence that countries which interrupted debt service in the 1930s found it more difficult to …