How Costly Are Debt Crises?
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Summary:
The aim of this paper is to assess the short- and medium-term impact of debt crises on GDP. Using an unbalanced panel of 154 countries from 1970 to 2008, the paper shows that debt crises produce significant and long-lasting output losses, reducing output by about 10 percent after eight years. The results also suggest that debt crises tend to be more detrimental than banking and currency crises. The significance of the results is robust to different specifications, identification and endogeneity checks, and datasets.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2011/280
Subject:
Currency crises Debt default External debt Financial crises Production Production growth Public debt
English
Publication Date:
December 1, 2011
ISBN/ISSN:
9781463926618/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2011280
Pages:
30
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