Crisis atlas / CHE
Switzerland
12 distinct crisis events in 7 episodes, 1870–2009, from the union of five primary chronologies.
Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →
Crisis timeline
Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.
- 2009Bankinglaeven_valencia1 source
- 2008Bankinggmd, jst, laeven_valencia3 sources
- 1991Bankingjst1 source
- 1990Bankinggmd1 source
- 1933Bankingrr1 source
- 1932Bankingrr1 source
- 1931Bankinggmd, jst, rr3 sources
- 1919Bankinggmd1 source
- 1914Bankinggmd1 source
- 1910Bankingjst1 source
- 1871Bankingrr1 source
- 1870Bankinggmd, jst, rr3 sources
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
Macro context around each episode
Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.
1870–1871
Banking1910
Banking1914
Banking1919
Banking1931–1933
Banking1990–1991
BankingSource: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology