Currency Crises, Current Account Reversals and Growth: The Compounded Effect for Emerging Markets

Lubos Komarek () and Martin Melecký

No 269628, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the possible negative effect of external crises, sudden stops in capital flows and currency crises in emerging market economies. We find that a current account reversal has an important effect, both direct and indirect, on economic growth, and depresses GDP by about 1 percentage point in the current year, when using a broad group of emerging markets. On the other hand, currency crises themselves, identified as a sharp depreciation, do not appear to have a significant direct impact on growth. Their overall effect on growth is positive, though rather insignificant from an economic point of view. The joint occurrence of the currency crisis and the current account reversal appears to be the most damaging event for economic growth. Both the direct and compounded effects are about 5 times larger than those of the reversal in the current year. The estimated cumulative losses for current account reversals and the joint crisis are 2 and 21 percentage points, respectively. The time necessary for the adjustment of actual growth back to its equilibrium rate is roughly 2.5 years after the current account reversal and 6.5 years after the joint occurrence of the currency crisis and the reversal.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.269628

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