TY  - JOUR
AU  - Reinhart,Carmen M.
TI  - This Time is Different Chartbook: Country Histories on Debt, Default, and Financial Crises
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15815
PY  - 2010
Y2  - March 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15815
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15815.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Carmen M. Reinhart
Peterson Institute for International Economics
1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1903
Tel: 202-454-1325
Fax: 202-659-3225
E-Mail: creinhart@piie.com
AB  - 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.
ER  -