This page contains links to data for all figures and tables in This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton University Press, 2009. This data is also located on Carmen Reinhart's website.
The reader will note that the data set is quite massive and can be used to study a huge range of issues. It includes the first long-dated cross-country historical data on domestic debt. (Since our book was published, other researchers, notably at the International Monetary Fund, have followed our detailed source notes to extend these series, an effort we welcome.) We also provide data for banking crises, sovereign defaults to foreign creditors, sovereign defaults on domestic debt, inflation crises and exchange rate crises, etc. It should be noted that although the appendix to our book on banking crisis dates does not separate out systemic and non-systemic banking crises, the spreadsheets posted here and used in the second half of the book definitely draw this distinction, as should be apparent from the text. This implies that for systemic banking crises, the reader should refer to the dates in these spreadsheets. The data set also includes the first long-dated cross-country data set for housing prices.
Preface
Figure P.1 Sovereign external debt, 1800-2008: Percentage of countries in external default or restructuring weighted by their share of world income
Chapter 1
Table 1.1 Defining crises: A Summary of quantitative thresholds
Table 1.2 Defining crises by events: A summary
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 Ratios of external debt to GDP: Defaulters and nondefaulters, 1970-2001
Figure 2.2 Definition of debtors' clubs and external debt intolerance regions
Table 2.1 External debt at the time of default: Middle-income countries, 1970-2008
Table 2.2 External debt at the time of default: Frequency distribution, 1970-2008
Table 2.3 Risk and debt: Panel pairwise correlations, 1979-2001
Chapter 3
Table 3.1 Countries' share of world GDP, 1913 and 1990
Chapter 4 (Theoretical)
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 Sovereign external debt, unweighted, 1800-2008
Figure 5.2 Sovereign external debt, weighted by share of world income, 1800-2008
Figure 5.3 Countries with banking and external debt crises, weighted by their share of world income, 1900-2008
Figure 5.4 Inflation crises and external default, 1900-2008
Figure 5.5 Commodity prices and new external defaults, 1800-2008
Figure 5.6 Net capital flows from financial centers and external defaults, 1818-1968
Figure 5.7 Duration of external default episodes, 1800-2008
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1 Spain: Defaults and loans to the Crown, 1601-1679
Table 6.1 The early external defaults: Europe, 1300-1799
Table 6.2 External default and rescheduling: Africa, Europe, and Latin America, nineteenth century
Table 6.3 Default and rescheduling: Africa and Asia, twentieth century to 2008
Table 6.4 Default and rescheduling: Europe and Latin America, twentieth century to 2008
Table 6.5 The cumulative tally of default and rescheduling: Africa and Asia, year of independence to 2008
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1 Domestic public debt as a share of total debt: All countries, 1900-2007
Figure 7.2 Domestic public debt as a share of total debt: Advanced economies, 1900-2007
Figure 7.3 Domestic public debt as a share of total debt: Emerging market economies, 1900-2007
Figure 7.4 Share of domestic debt that is long term: All countries and Latin America, 1914-1959
Figure 7.5 Sovereign domestic debt, percent of countries in default or restructuring, 1900-2008
Table 7.1 Interest rates on domestic and external debt, 1928-1946
Table 7.2 Episodes of domestic debt default or restructuring , 1750-1921
Table 7.3 Selected episodes of domestic debt default or restructuring, late 1920s-1950s
Table 7.4 Selected episodes of domestic debt default or restructuring, 1970-2008
Chapter 8
Figure 8.1 Ratios of public debt to revenue during external default: Eighty-nine episodes, 1827-2003
Figure 8.2 Ratios of public debt to revenue during external default: Frequency of occurrence, 1827-2003
Figure 8.3 Ratios of public debt to revenue during external default: Cumulative frequency of occurrence, 1827-2003
Figure 8.4 the run-up in domestic and external debt on the eve of external default: Eighty-nine episodes, 1827-2003
Figure 8.5 Domestic public debt outstanding: China, 1895-1949
Table 8.1 Debt ratios at the time of default: Selected episodes
Table 8.2 Inflation and domestic debt: Selected episodes, 1917-1994
Chapter 9
Figure 9.1 Real GDP before, during, and after domestic and external debt crises, 1800-2008
Figure 9.2 Domestic and external debt crises and GDP, 1800-2008
Figure 9.3 Consumer prices before, during, and after domestic and external debt crises, 1800-2008
Figure 9.4 Domestic and external debt crises and inflation, 1800-2008
Figure 9.5 Who is expropriated, residents or foreigners? The probability of domestic and external default, 1800-2008
Figure 9.6 The composite probability of domestic default as a share of the total probability of default, 1800-2008
Table 9.1 Output and inflation around and during debt crises
Table 9.2 Who gets expropriated, residents or foreigners? Preliminary tests for the equality of two proportions (Binomial distribution), 1800-2006
Chapter 10
Figure 10.1 Capital mobility and the incidence of banking crises: All countries, 1800-2008
Figure 10.2 Equity prices and banking crises: Forty episodes in emerging markets, 1920-2007
Figure 10.3 The number of banks in the Unites States, 1900-1945
Figure 10.4 Real GDP growth per capita (PPP basis) and banking crises: Advanced economies
Figure 10.5 Real GDP growth per capita (PPP basis) and banking crises: Emerging market economies (112 episodes)
Figure 10.6 Real central government revenue growth and banking crises: All countries, 1800-1944
Figure 10.7 Real central government revenue growth and banking crises: All countries, 1945-2007
Figure 10.8 Real central government revenue growth and banking crises: Advanced economies, 1815-2007
Figure 10.9 Real central government revenue growth and banking crises: Emerging market economies, 1873-2007
Figure 10.10 The evolution of debt following major postwar crises: Advanced and emerging markets
Table 10.1 Debt and banking crises: Africa and Asia, year of independence to 2008
Table 10.2 Debt and banking crises: Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania, year of independence to 2008
Table 10.3 Frequency of banking crises: Africa and Asia, through 2008
Table 10.4 Frequency of banking crises: Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania, through 2008
Table 10.5 Summary of the incidence and frequency of banking crises, 1800 (or year of independence) to 2008
Table 10.6 Summary of the incidence and frequency of banking crises, 1945 (or year of independence) to 2008
Table 10.7 The effect of a capital flow bonanza on the probability of a banking crisis in a sixty-six country sample, 1960-2007
Table 10.8 Cycles of real housing prices and banking crises
Table 10.9 Creative accounting? Bailout costs of banking crises
Chapter 11
Figure 11.1 Changes in the silver content of the currency: Austria and Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, 1799-1815
Figure 11.2 The march toward fiat money, Europe, 1400-1850: The average silver content of ten currencies
Table 11.1 Expropriation through currency debasement: Europe, 1258-1799
Table 11.2 Expropriation through currency debasement: Europe, nineteenth century
Chapter 12
Figure 12.1 The median inflation rate: Five-year moving average for all countries, 1500-2000
Figure 12.2 The incidence of annual inflation above 20 percent: Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, 1800-2000
Figure 12.3 Currency crashes: The share of countries with annual depreciation rates greater than 15 percent,1800-2000
Figure 12.4 Median annual depreciation: Five-year moving average for all countries, 1800-2000
Figure 12.5 The persistence of dollarization top panel bottom panel
Figure 12.6 The de-dollarization of bank deposits: Israel, Poland, Mexico, and Pakistan, 1980-2002
Table 12.1 "Default" through inflation: Asia, Europe, and the "New World," 1500-1799
Table 12.2 "Default" through inflation: Africa and Asia, 1800-2008
Table 12.3 "Default" through inflation: Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania, 1800-2008
Chapter 13
Figure 13.1 The proportion of countries with banking crises, 1900-2008, weighted by their share of world income
Figure 13.2 Real housing prices: United States, 1891-2008
Figure 13.3 Real housing prices and postwar banking crises: Advanced economies
Figure 13.4 Real equity prices and postwar banking crises: Advanced economies
Figure 13.5 Ratio of current account balance to GDP on the eve of postwar banking crises: Advanced economies
Figure 13.6 Growth in real per capita GDP (PPP basis) and postwar banking crises: Advanced economies
Figure 13.7 Real central government debt and postwar banking crises: Advanced economies
Table 13.1 Post-World War II bank-centered financial crises in advanced economies
Chapter 14
Figure 14.1 Cycles of past and ongoing real house prices and banking crises
Figure 14.2 Cycles of past and ongoing real equity prices and banking crises
Figure 14.3 Cycles of past unemployment and banking crises
Figure 14.4 Cycles of past real per capita GDP and banking crises
Figure 14.5 The cumulative increase in real public debt in the three years following past banking crises
Figure 14.6 Cycles of Institutional Investor Sovereign ratings and past banking crises
Figure 14.7 The duration of major financial crises: Fourteen Great Depression episodes versus fourteen post-World War II episodes (Duration of the fall in output per capita)
Figure 14.8 The duration of major financial crises: Fourteen Great Depression episodes versus fourteen post-World War II episodes (number of years for output per capita to return to its pre-crisis level)
Figure 14.9 The cumulative increase in real public debt three and six years following the onset of the Great Depression in 1929: Selected countries
Table 14.1 Fiscal deficits as a percentage of GDP
Chapter 15
Figure 15.1 Percentage change in real housing prices, 2002-2006
Table 15.1 Global banking crises, 1890-2008: Contagion or common fundamentals?
Chapter 16
Figure 16.1 The proportion of countries with systemic banking crises (weighted by their share of world income) and U.S. corporate speculative-grade default rates, 1919-2008
Figure 16.2 Varieties of crises: World aggregate, 1900-2008
Figure 16.3 Varieties of crises: Advanced economies aggregate, 1900-2008
Figure 16.4 Varieties of crises: Africa, 1900-2008
Figure 16.5 Varieties of crises: Asia, 1800-2008
Figure 16.6 Varieties of crises: Latin America, 1800-2008
Figure 16.7 Global stock markets during global crises: The composite real stock price index
Figure 16.8 Real per capita GDP during global financial crises: Multicountry aggregates (PPP weighted)
Figure 16.9 The contracting spiral of world trade month by month, January 1929-June 1933
Figure 16.10 World export growth, 1928-2009
Figure 16.11 The collapse of exports, 1929-1932
Figure 16.12 The sequencing of crises: A prototype
Table 16.1 Indexes of total building activity in selected countries
Table 16.2 Unemployment rates for selected countries, 1929-1932
Chapter 17
Figure 17.1 Change in Institutional Investor Credit Ratings of Sixty-Six Countries, 1979-2008
Table 17.1 Early warning indicators of banking and currency crises: A summary
Table 17.2 Institutional Investor ratings of sixty-six countries: Upgrade or demotion, 1979-2008