Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45547 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
BERG Working Paper Series on Government and Growth No. 80
Publisher: 
Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group on Government and Growth (BERG), Bamberg
Abstract: 
Several empirical studies are concerned with measuring the effect of currency and current account crises on economic growth. Using different empirical models this paper serves two aspects. It provides an explicit assessment of country specific factors influencing the costs of crises in terms of economic growth and controls via a treatment type model for possible sample selection governing the occurrence of crises in order to estimate the impact on economic growth correctly. The applied empirical models allow for rich intertemporal dependencies via serially correlated errors and capture latent country specific heterogeneity via random coefficients. For accurate estimation of the treatment type model a simulated maximum likelihood approach employing efficient importance sampling is used. The results reveal significant costs in terms of economic growth for both crises. Costs for reversals are linked to country specific variables, while costs for currency crises are not. Furthermore, shocks explaining current account reversals and growth show strong significant positive correlation.
Subjects: 
Currency crises
Current account reversals
Treatment Model
Discrete dependent variable
Efficient Importance Sampling
Panel Data
JEL: 
F32
C15
C23
C33
O10
ISBN: 
978-3-931052-90-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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