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Crisis atlas / CYP / 2011–2016

Cyprus, 2011–2016

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.

BankingSovereign debt

Crisis years in this episode

Every distinct (year, type) event inside the 2011–2016 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. 2011
    Bankingesrb, gmd, laeven_valencia3 sources
  2. 2012
    Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia2 sources
  3. 2013
    Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia2 sources
    Sovereign debtgmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
  4. 2014
    Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia2 sources
  5. 2015
    Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia2 sources
  6. 2016
    Bankingesrb1 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

Episode-level fiscal cost and output loss from the systemic banking crises database. Fiscal cost is the gross outlay of banking-sector rescues; output loss is the cumulative deviation of real GDP from its pre-crisis trend, both as a percent of GDP.

Banking episode 2011–2015
18.0%
Fiscal cost, % of GDP
59.3%
Output loss, % of GDP
2015
Episode end year

Source: Laeven & Valencia (2026), IMF WP/26/94, Systemic Banking Crises Database 1970-2025 Methodology

Macro context, 20042023

Seven years either side of the episode. Each panel has its own scale; the crisis window is shaded. Only indicators with data for Cyprus 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)
-50510200420112023
Real GDP growth (% y/y)
-1001020200420112023
Policy rate (%)
0246200420112023
Govt debt (% of GDP)
050100150200420112023
Unemployment (%)
01020200420112023
Current account (% of GDP)
-15-10-50200420112023

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.

Banking
  • ECB/ESRB2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Global Macro Database2011
  • Laeven-Valencia2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Sovereign debt
  • Global Macro Database2013
  • Laeven-Valencia2013

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 (2011–2016). 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.

CYP-2011Cyprus
  1. Jun-2011LendingBBEL
  2. Jun-2012Capital injectionsAHCI
  3. Jun-2012RestructuringRES
  4. Mar-2013RestructuringBAIL
  5. Mar-2013Regulatory forbearance / rulesORL
  6. Mar-2013RestructuringRES
  7. Mar-2013Regulatory forbearance / rulesSBH

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.