From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis
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- 1 August 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in American Economic Review
- Vol. 101 (5) , 1676-1706
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.5.1676
Abstract
Newly developed historical time series on public debt, along with data on external debts, allow a deeper analysis of the debt cycles underlying serial debt and banking crises. We test three related hypotheses at both “world” aggregate levels and on an individual country basis. First, external debt surges are an antecedent to banking crises. Second, banking crises (domestic and those in financial centers) often precede or accompany sovereign debt crises; we find they help predict them. Third, public borrowing surges ahead of external sovereign default, as governments have “hidden domestic debts” that exceed the better documented levels of external debt. (JEL E44, F34, F44, G01, H63, N20)Keywords
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