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On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

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This paper proposes a theory of twin banking-currency crisis in which both fundamentals and self-fulfilling beliefs play crucial roles. Fundamentals determine whether crises will occur. Self-fulfilling beliefs determine when they occur. The fundamental that causes 'twin crises' is government guarantees to domestic banks' foreign creditors. When these guarantees are in place twin crises inevitably occur, but their timing is a multiple-equilibrium phenomenon that depends on agents' beliefs. So while self-fulfilling beliefs have an important role to play, twin crises do not happen just anywhere. They happen in countries where there are fundamental problems- problems such as guarantees to the financial sector.

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  • Craig Burnside & Martin Eichenbaum & Sergio T. Rebelo, 2000. "On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies," RCER Working Papers 468, University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER).
    • Handle: RePEc:roc:rocher:468
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    Macroeconomics; International;

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    • E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance

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