Systemic Financial Crises, Balance Sheets, and Model Uncertainity /

This paper empirically examines the probability and intensity of financial crises during the 1990s with a view to informing crisis prevention and mitigation policies. The econometric analysis uses a decision-theoretic approach, rather than the more standard general-to-specific approach, to address t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weeks, Melvyn
Other Authors: Stone, Mark
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/162
Online Access:Full text available on IMF