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Financial Market Contagion in the Asian Crisis
Goldfajn, Ilan - 2021
This paper tests for evidence of contagion between the financial markets of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212114
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Taming Financial Development to Reduce Crises
Ben Naceur, Sami - 2019
This paper assesses whether and how financial development triggers the occurrence of banking crises. It builds on a database that includes financial development as well as financial access, depth and efficiency for almost 100 countries. Through estimation of a dynamic logit panel model, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868462
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Systemic Banking Crises Database : An Update
Laeven, Luc - 2012
We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt). We also update our dating of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098639
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Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications
Claessens, Stijn - 2013
This paper reviews the literature on financial crises focusing on three specific aspects. First, what are the main factors explaining financial crises? Since many theories on the sources of financial crises highlight the importance of sharp fluctuations in asset and credit markets, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086317
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Systemic Banking Crises Revisited
Laeven, Luc - 2018
This paper updates the database on systemic banking crises presented in Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2013). Drawing on 151 systemic banking crises episodes around the globe during 1970-2017, the database includes information on crisis dates, policy responses to resolve banking crises, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909413
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Rating the Rating Agencies : Anticipating Currency Crises or Debt Crises?
Sy, Amadou - 2021
In contrast to the early-warning system literature, we find that currency and debt crises are not closely linked in emerging markets. We find that after 1994, credit ratings predict debt crises but fail to anticipate currency crises. When debt crises are defined as sovereign distress-when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212322
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The Big Split : Why Did Output Trajectories in the ASEAN-4 Diverge after the Global Financial Crisis?
Isnawangsih, Agnes - 2013
, however, was not uniform. Even in a relatively homogenous group of countries such as ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the … impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the … Philippines was larger and was sustained longer. Third, idiosyncratic factors pushed output up in Indonesia and down in Thailand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072592
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Did Output Recover from the Asian Crisis?
Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta C. - 2005
This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073466
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Canada's Potential Growth : Another Victim of the Crisis
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2011
This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labor services and total factor productivity, we find a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134722
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Great Recession and Fiscal Squeeze at U.S. Subnational Government Level
Jonas, Jiri - 2012
The paper discusses the fiscal impact of the Great Recession of 2007-08 on state and local governments in the United States. It documents the sharp decline in tax revenue and discusses how states responded to close the budget gaps in order to obey the balanced budget provisions. It highligts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098614