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Crisis atlas / HUN / 1941–1968

Hungary, 1941–1968

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.

Sovereign debtCurrency

Crisis years in this episode

Every distinct (year, type) event inside the 1941–1968 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. 1941
    Sovereign debtgmd, rr2 sources
  2. 1942
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  3. 1943
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  4. 1944
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  5. 1945
    Currencygmd, rr2 sources
    Sovereign debtgmd, rr2 sources
  6. 1946
    Currencyrr1 source
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  7. 1947
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  8. 1948
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  9. 1949
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  10. 1950
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  11. 1951
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  12. 1952
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  13. 1953
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  14. 1954
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  15. 1955
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  16. 1956
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  17. 1957
    Currencygmd, rr2 sources
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  18. 1958
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  19. 1959
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  20. 1960
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  21. 1961
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  22. 1962
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  23. 1963
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  24. 1964
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  25. 1965
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  26. 1966
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  27. 1967
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  28. 1968
    Currencygmd, rr2 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

Laeven-Valencia banking-crisis detail

Laeven-Valencia reports fiscal cost and output loss for systemic banking crises only. This episode involves sovereign debt and currency crises, for which no comparable cost figures exist in the source chronologies.

Macro context, 19341975

Seven years either side of the episode. Each panel has its own scale; the crisis window is shaded. Only indicators with data for Hungary 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)
-10k010k20k30k193419411975
Real GDP growth (% y/y)
-2502550193419411975
Govt debt (% of GDP)
0204060193419411975
Unemployment (%)
01020193419411975
Current account (% of GDP)
012193419411975

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.

Sovereign debt
  • Global Macro Database1941, 1945
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
Currency
  • Global Macro Database1945, 1957, 1968
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1945, 1946, 1957, 1968

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

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.