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Crisis atlas / JPN / 1990–2001

Japan, 1990–2001

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.

Banking

Crisis years in this episode

Every distinct (year, type) event inside the 1990–2001 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. 1990
    Bankinggmd1 source
  2. 1992
    Bankingrr1 source
  3. 1993
    Bankingrr1 source
  4. 1994
    Bankingrr1 source
  5. 1995
    Bankingrr1 source
  6. 1996
    Bankingrr1 source
  7. 1997
    Bankinggmd, jst, laeven_valencia, rr4 sources
  8. 1998
    Bankinglaeven_valencia, rr2 sources
  9. 1999
    Bankinglaeven_valencia, rr2 sources
  10. 2000
    Bankinglaeven_valencia, rr2 sources
  11. 2001
    Bankinggmd, laeven_valencia, 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

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 1997–2001
8.6%
Fiscal cost, % of GDP
45.0%
Output loss, % of GDP
2001
Episode end year

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

Macro context, 19832008

Seven years either side of the episode. Each panel has its own scale; the crisis window is shaded. Only indicators with data for Japan 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)
-2024198319902008
Real GDP growth (% y/y)
-50510198319902008
Policy rate (%)
0246198319902008
Govt debt (% of GDP)
0100200198319902008
Unemployment (%)
0246198319902008
Current account (% of GDP)
0246198319902008
Bank credit growth (% y/y)
-100102030198319902008

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
  • Global Macro Database1990, 1997, 2001
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1997
  • Laeven-Valencia1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

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

11 interventions from the Metrick-Schmelzing banking-crisis database whose recorded year falls inside this episode window (1990–2001). 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.

JPN-1992Japan
  1. Sep-1992LendingAHEL
  2. Aug-1993Capital injectionsAHCI
  3. Dec-1994Capital injectionsAHCI
  4. Dec-1994RestructuringRES
  5. Apr-1997Capital injectionsAHCI
  6. Nov-1997LendingMLA
  7. Nov-1997LendingBBEL
  8. Mar-1998Capital injectionsBBCI
  9. Mar-1999Capital injectionsBBCI
  10. Mar-1999RestructuringRES
JPN-2001Japan
  1. 2001No interventionNO/I

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.