Common shocks and currency crises

Ramon Moreno and Bharat Trehan ()

No 2000-05, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: This paper attempts to determine the extent to which common external shocks explain simultaneous currency crises. We define crises on a country by country basis using a new criterion that takes into account variations in the volatility of exchange rates over time and across countries. Using a Poisson regression model, we find that over the post-Bretton woods period, a small number of common external shocks can explain between sixty to eighty percent of the variation in the total number of crises over time, depending upon the set of countries one looks at. Our findings provide one explanation of why currency crises sometimes bunch together and sometimes do not.

Keywords: Money; Financial crises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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