Craig Burnside (World Bank) Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University and NBER and Federal Rerserve Chicago) Sergio T. Rebelo () (Northwestern University and NBER and CEPR)
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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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Paper provided by University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER) in its series RCER Working Papers with number
468.
Length: 47 pages Date of creation: Jan 2000 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:roc:rocher:468
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