RDP 2002-08: Currency Crises and Macroeconomic Performance Appendix A: Sample of Currency and Twin Crises

Luke Gower and Alan Krause

November 2002

Table A1: Higher-income Countries
Above median per capita income at 1982 sample midpoint
Country Crises
Argentina 1966:M11; 1970:M6; 1975:M1; 1981:M2*
Australia 1974:M10; 1976:M12; 1985:M2
Bulgaria 1996:M5*
Colombia 1965:M9
Finland 1982:M10; 1992:M9*
France 1969:M8
Greece 1983:M1
Ireland 1967:M12
Israel 1974:M11; 1977:M11*; 1989:M1
Mexico 1982:M2*; 1994:M12*
Portugal 1982:M6
Spain 1977:M7*
Sweden 1982:M10; 1992:M11*
Trinidad and Tobago 1985:M12; 1993:M4
United Kingdom 1967:M12; 1992:M10
Uruguay 1971:M12; 1982:M12*
Venezuela 1984:M2; 1986:M12; 1989:M3; 1995:M12*
South Africa 1975:M10; 1984:M7

Note: * denotes twin crises
Table A2: Lower-income Countries
Below median per capita income at 1982 sample midpoint
Country Crises
Note: * denotes twin crises
Bolivia 1972:M11; 1979:M12; 1982:M2
Botswana 1984:M7; 1992:M7; 1998:M7
Costa Rica 1981:M1
Dominican Republic 1985:M1; 1987:M6; 1990:M4
Ecuador 1970:M8; 1982:M5*; 1985:M12; 1992:M9
Guatemala 1986:M6; 1989:M11; 1997:M1
Hungary 1991:M1*
Indonesia 1978:M11; 1983:M4; 1986:M9; 1997:M8*
Jamaica 1967:M12; 1973:M1; 1978:M5; 1983:M11
South Korea 1971:M7; 1974:M12; 1980:M1; 1997:M11*
Mauritius 1967:M12; 1979:M11; 1981:M10
Peru 1987:M11
Philippines 1983:M10*; 1997:M9
Poland 1991:M6*
Paraguay 1984:M3; 1986:M12; 1989:M3
Thailand 1984:M11*; 1997:M7*
Turkey 1991:M3*