Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86695
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 10-040/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We estimate the impulse response function (IRF) of GDP toa banking crisis, applying an extension of the local projectionsmethod developed in Jorda (2005). This method is shown to bemore robust to misspecification than calculating IRFs analytically. However, it suffers from a hitherto unnoticed systematicbias which increases with the forecast horizon. We propose asimple correction to this bias, which our Monte Carlo simulations show works well. Applying our corrected local projectionsestimator to a panel of 99 countries observed between 1974-2001,we find that an average banking crisis yields a long-term GDP lossof around 10 percent with little sign of recovery within 10 years.GDP losses to banking crises are even more severe in Africancountries. Like the original Jorda's (2005) method, our extensionof it is quite widely applicable.
Subjects: 
banking crisis
impulse response
panel data
JEL: 
G01
E27
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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