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Crisis atlas / AUT / 1850–1874

Austria, 1850–1874

One crisis episode: distinct crisis years merged across gaps of up to two non-crisis years. Types, source agreement, and macro context are drawn from the union of five primary chronologies.

CurrencySovereign debtBanking

Crisis years in this episode

Every distinct (year, type) event inside the 1850–1874 window, with the chronologies flagging it and the count of agreeing sources. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) mark only the first year, so agreement falls in the continuation years.

  1. 1850
    Currencygmd, rr2 sources
  2. 1851
    Currencyrr1 source
  3. 1853
    Currencyrr1 source
  4. 1856
    Currencygmd, rr2 sources
  5. 1859
    Currencyrr1 source
  6. 1860
    Currencyrr1 source
  7. 1863
    Currencygmd, rr2 sources
  8. 1866
    Currencyrr1 source
  9. 1868
    Sovereign debtgmd, rr2 sources
  10. 1869
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  11. 1870
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  12. 1873
    Bankinggmd, rr2 sources
  13. 1874
    Bankingrr1 source

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020, 2026) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology

Laeven-Valencia banking-crisis detail

This banking episode is not in the Laeven-Valencia systemic banking crises database, which covers systemic banking crises from 1970. The crisis is dated here by other chronologies (GMD, JST, Reinhart-Rogoff, or ESRB), none of which report a fiscal cost or output loss.

Macro context, 18431881

Seven years either side of the episode. Each panel has its own scale; the crisis window is shaded. Only indicators with data for Austria in this window are shown. Bank credit growth (year over year in total loans) is available for the 18 Jordà-Schularick-Taylor advanced economies.

Inflation (% y/y)
-1001020184318501881
Real GDP growth (% y/y)
-50510184318501881
Policy rate (%)
0246184318501881
Govt debt (% of GDP)
0255075184318501881

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 (credit) Real GDP growth is derived as the year-over-year change in real GDP; current account and government debt are percent of GDP; policy rate is the central-bank rate; bank credit growth is the year-over-year change in JST total loans. Methodology

How each source dates this episode

The chronologies disagree on start years and durations. This table is generated from the event rows, not curated: it lists, per crisis type, which source flags which years inside the window.

Currency
  • Global Macro Database1850, 1856, 1863
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1850, 1851, 1853, 1856, 1859, 1860, 1863, 1866
Sovereign debt
  • Global Macro Database1868
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1868, 1869, 1870
Banking
  • Global Macro Database1873
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1873, 1874

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020, 2026) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology

Documented policy responses

7 interventions from the Metrick-Schmelzing banking-crisis database whose recorded year falls inside this episode window (1850–1874). Each row is one documented government or central-bank action, tagged with the database’s own intervention categories and short code, under the crisis code it assigns. Matching is exact: same country, intervention year inside the window. The database’s global-crisis rows (no country) are never matched here.

AUT-1857Austria
  1. Nov-1857LendingAHEL
AUT-1869Hungary
  1. Sep-1869No interventionNO/I
  2. Sep-1869LendingAHEL
AUT-1873Austria
  1. May-1873LendingBBEL
  2. May-1873Regulatory forbearance / rulesORL
  3. May-1873Regulatory forbearance / rulesSBH
  4. Jun-1873LendingBBEL

Source: Metrick-Schmelzing Banking-Crisis Interventions Database (Yale Program on Financial Stability) Cite as: Metrick, Andrew, and Paul Schmelzing, "Banking-Crisis Interventions Across Time and Space," working paper, 2024 (dataset consulted 2026-07-10). License: Creative Commons attribution. Methodology

Policy-response case studies (external)

For qualitative accounts of how authorities intervened in systemic crises, see the Yale Program on Financial Stability New Bagehot Project, a library of financial-crisis intervention case studies. It is a separate qualitative resource; no specific case is asserted to match this episode.