@techreport{NBERw15815, title = "This Time is Different Chartbook: Country Histories on Debt, Default, and Financial Crises", author = "Carmen M. Reinhart", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "15815", year = "2010", month = "March", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15815", abstract = {This Chartbook provides a pictorial history, on a country-by-country basis, of public debt and economic crises of various forms. It is a timeline of a country’s creditworthiness and financial turmoil. The analysis, narrative, and illustrations in Reinhart and Rogoff (2009), This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, were primarily organized around themes (serial default, inflation, etc.), although detailed tables in the book chronicled country-specific information on the dating, frequency, incidence, etc. of specific crises episodes by country. The Chartbook compliments the thematic analysis with individual country histories, and provides the grounds for a systematic analysis of the temporal patterns of debt cycles, banking and sovereign debt crises, hyperinflation, and, for the post World War II period, the reliance on IMF programs.}, }