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- • Manasse, Roubini, and Schimmelpfennig (2003) not only consider as a debt crisis outright default, but also situations where default was avoided through the provision of large scale official financing by the This section is partially based on Pescatori and Sy (2007). IMF. They define a debt crisis if (i) Standard and Poor’s definition of a debt default, or (ii) if the country receives a large non-concessional IMF loan, defined as access in excess of 100 percent of quota.
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- • Pescatori and Sy (2007) define debt crises as events occurring when either a country defaults or when its bond spreads are above a critical threshold. For the critical threshold they use a rate of 1,000 basis points, based on Extreme Value Theory and the Kernel Density estimation, with the 90th percentile of the fitted distribution.
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When the index exceeds a predetermined threshold (two standard deviations above the mean), then a crisis is identified. Kaminsky and Reinhart (1999) made an adjusted version, and later various variations emerged (for an overview see Lestano and Jacobs, 2007).
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