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  "summary": "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).",
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      "content": "- Updates the banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises.\n- Adds updated information on policy responses and outcomes, including fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt.\n- Updates dating of sovereign debt and currency crises."
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      "content": "- Includes all systemic banking, currency, and sovereign debt crises during the period 1970-2011.\n- Covers policy responses and outcomes: fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt."
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      "heading": "Empirical findings highlighted",
      "content": "- Data show striking differences in policy responses between advanced and emerging economies.\n- Data also show many similarities between past and ongoing crises."
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      "content": "- Authors: Fabian Valencia, Luc Laeven\n- Publication date: June 1, 2012\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2012/163\n- Issue: 163\n- Volume: 2012\n- Pages: 33\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505054.001\n- Stock No: WPIEA2012163\n- ISBN: 9781475505054\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Citation (as presented): Fabian Valencia, and Luc Laeven. \"Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update\", IMF Working Papers 2012, 163 (2012), accessed 7/3/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505054.001\n\nSource: IMF Working Paper — \"Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update\" (June 1, 2012).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp12163\n  - wp12163 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp12163 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/systemic-banking-crises-database-an-update-26015"
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    "Citation (as presented): Fabian Valencia, and Luc Laeven. \"Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update\", IMF Working Papers 2012, 163 (2012), accessed 7/3/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505054.001",
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