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International Macroeconomics: Financial, Monetary, and Economic Crises

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  • Definition of economic and financial crises

    Crises are extraordinary events distinct from normal economic cycles. Not every financial crisis is an economic crisis, but financial crises often trigger or coincide with negative real-economic developments.

  • Speculative bubbles

    Price increases not justified by fundamentals, often identified only ex post. Speculation can cause financial crises but also supports market functioning.

  • Global economic and financial crises

    Crises affecting many economies simultaneously, often originating in dominant countries like the USA, spreading through trade, financial ties, or investor assumptions.

  • Historical classification of crises before industrialization

    Primarily agricultural and food crises, irregular occurrence, influenced by climate, with limited impact of sovereign defaults and speculation on business cycles.

  • Inflation crisis and hyperinflation thresholds

    Inflation crisis: inflation ≥ 20% per year; hyperinflation: inflation rate exceeds 500% per year.

  • Currency crisis definition (Frankel and Rose, 1996)

    Devaluation of at least 30% against the US dollar and 10 percentage points higher than the previous year, often linked with inflation and interest rate rises.

  • Debt crises components

    Include insolvency, repudiation of debts, and debt restructuring. Distinction between domestic and foreign debt crises.

  • Banking crisis characteristics (Reinhart/Rogoff, 2011)

    Run on banks causing bankruptcy, merger, or state takeover; or significant state assistance to troubled institutions without runs.

  • Banking crisis indicators (Laeven and Valencia, 2012)

    Financial support ≥ 5% of deposits, restructuring costs ≥ 3% of GDP, nationalizations, guarantees, securities purchases ≥ 5% of GDP, deposit freezes or bank closures.

  • "Twin" and "Triple" crises

    Twin crisis: banking crisis and currency crisis within ±1 year; triple crisis adds sovereign debt crisis in the same period.

  • Early warning systems for crises

    Use economic and financial indicators to predict crises, aiming to reduce risk and enable preventive policy measures.

  • Reliability criteria for crisis predictions

    High probability of crisis prediction, early warning before crisis onset, and consistent accuracy of warnings.

  • Potential crisis indicators (Kaminsky et al., 1998)

    Production level, real exchange rate deviation, banking crisis indicators, exports, monetary aggregates to reserves ratio, inflation, share prices.

  • Key causes of the subprime crisis

    Deregulation of financial markets, low central bank interest rates, rising household debt, and financial product innovations.

  • Impact of Glass-Steagall Act repeal (1999)

    Allowed commercial banks to engage in investment banking activities, increasing risk-taking and moral hazard in the financial system.

  • "Too big to fail" concept

    Systemically important banks take excessive risks expecting government bailouts to avoid collapse.

  • Agent problems and risk appetite in banks

    Traders incentivized by profits with limited loss responsibility, leading to high-risk behavior and systemic risk.

  • Neglected risks in the subprime crisis

    Underestimation of real estate price declines, collateral price sensitivity, bank exposure, and counterparty insurance defaults.

  • Keynesian view on crises and fiscal policy

    Markets can fail; fiscal policy is necessary to combat recessions and liquidity traps where monetary policy is limited.

  • Neoclassical view on crises and fiscal policy

    Markets are generally efficient; government intervention often worsens outcomes; bubbles are hard to identify due to unknown fundamentals.

  • Ricardian equivalence in fiscal policy

    Economic agents anticipate future taxes from government spending, reducing current consumption and limiting expansionary effects.

  • Macroprudential regulation tools

    Stress tests, countercyclical capital buffers, limits on foreign currency debt, and lending restrictions to ensure financial system stability.

  • First-generation currency crisis models

    Fixed exchange rate with fiscal deficits financed by money creation leads to reserve depletion and speculative attacks causing devaluation.

  • Second-generation currency crisis models

    Devaluation is a rational government response to speculative pressure, influenced by private sector expectations and costs of defending currency.

  • Third-generation currency crisis models

    Focus on financial crises involving moral hazard and contagion rather than currency crises alone.

  • Weimar Republic hyperinflation causes

    High war debts, reparations, money printing to finance government debt, and monetary system upheavals led to hyperinflation in the 1920s.

  • Distributional effects of Weimar hyperinflation

    Creditors and money holders lost; debtors, real asset owners, and the state benefited; currency speculation was widespread.

  • Great Depression policy response in Germany

    Monetary policy maintained gold parity without money supply increase; fiscal policy was restrictive, worsening unemployment and deflation.