## Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update

_IMF Working Papers, June 1, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Fabian Valencia, Luc Laeven
- Published: June 1, 2012
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505054.001

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### Update scope and purpose
- Updates the banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises.
- Adds updated information on policy responses and outcomes, including fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt.
- Updates dating of sovereign debt and currency crises.

### Database coverage and contents
- Includes all systemic banking, currency, and sovereign debt crises during the period 1970-2011.
- Covers policy responses and outcomes: fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt.

### Empirical findings highlighted
- Data show striking differences in policy responses between advanced and emerging economies.
- Data also show many similarities between past and ongoing crises.

### Publication and document metadata
- Authors: Fabian Valencia, Luc Laeven
- Publication date: June 1, 2012
- Series: Working Paper No. 2012/163
- Issue: 163
- Volume: 2012
- Pages: 33
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505054.001
- Stock No: WPIEA2012163
- ISBN: 9781475505054
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- 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

*Source: IMF Working Paper — "Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update" (June 1, 2012).*

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