Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-First / Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Maurice Obstfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier.

Contributor:

Obstfeld, Maurice.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17252.

NBER working paper series no. w17252

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

A key precursor of twentieth-century financial crises in emerging and advanced economies alike was the rapid buildup of leverage. Those emerging economies that avoided leverage booms during the 2000s also were most likely to avoid the worst effects of the twenty-first century's first global crisis. A discrete-choice panel analysis using 1973-2010 data suggests that domestic credit expansion and real currency appreciation have been the most robust and significant predictors of financial crises, regardless of whether a country is emerging or advanced. For emerging economies, however, higher foreign exchange reserves predict a sharply reduced probability of a subsequent crisis.

Notes:

July 2011.

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